农工 (nóng gōng) — farm laborer, agricultural worker; agriculture and industry (as two sectors)

Definition

农工 means 'farm laborer' (a person) OR the paired sectors 'agriculture and industry' — choose by context: with 做 it's a person, with 并重 it's the two sectors together.

noun
farm laboreragricultural workeragriculture and industry (as two sectors)
Measure word · 个

Examples

  • 农工，。
    Tā zài nóng chǎng zuò nóng gōng, měi tiān gōng zuò shí gè xiǎo shí.
    He works as a farm laborer on the farm, working ten hours a day.
  • 农工。
    Zhèng fǔ yīng gāi zhòng shì nóng gōng bìng zhòng de fā zhǎn cè lüè.
    The government should value a development strategy that emphasizes both agriculture and industry.
  • 农工。
    Zhè xiē nóng gōng lái zì fù jìn de cūn zhuāng.
    These farm workers come from nearby villages.

Origin

Compound word
构词法gòucífǎ
联合liánhéSide by side

Two parts of equal weight, alike or opposite in meaning, standing side by side.

农nóngagriculture
工gōngworker/industry

「农」 names agriculture and 「工」 names worker or industry, so it covers farming and work.

Characters in this word

Two or more meaningful parts placed together so that their meanings combine into a new one.

This origin belongs to the traditional form 農; 农 is its simplified writing.

The traditional form 農 comes from 林 (vegetation) and 辰 (a hoe), showing a hoe among vegetation to remove weeds; the simplified 农 is a later abbreviation.

Open 农 →

A drawing of the thing itself, worn down over three thousand years into a few strokes.

The shape of 工 is a picture of a bladed tool used to plow ground or mark a border; some read it as a carpenter's square.

Open 工 →

Browse more HSK 7-9 words or search the full 43,000-word dictionary.