工伤 (gōng shāng) — workplace injury | tongtong Chinese Dictionary

Definition

noun

workplace injury

Easily confused

工伤。
Tā yīn wèi gōng shāng zhù le sān gè yuè de yī yuàn.
He was hospitalized for three months due to a workplace injury.
工伤。
Gōng sī yīng gāi wèi gōng shāng yuán gōng tí gōng péi cháng.
The company should provide compensation for employees with workplace injuries.
工伤。
Zhè ge gōng chǎng qù nián fā shēng le sān qǐ gōng shāng.
This factory had three workplace injuries last year.

Compound word

构词法gòucífǎ

偏正piānzhèngModifier + head

The first part narrows down the second: it says what kind of thing the head is.

工伤 joins 工, work, with 伤, injury, to mean an injury suffered at work.

Characters in this word

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.

Most characters — around four in five — are built this way: one part hints at the meaning, the other at the pronunciation.

This origin belongs to the traditional form 傷; 伤 is its simplified writing.

Meaning part形符xíngfú

Sound part声符shēngfú

𥏻

𥏻𥏻傷shāng

The sound has drifted apartThe sound part was a clue two thousand years ago — it often still helps, but not always.

The traditional form 傷 shows 人, a person, and uses 𥏻 to give the sound; the simplified 伤 is a later shorthand.