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工作者 (gōng zuò zhě) — worker (in a specific field or profession)

Definition

工作者 is not a generic 'worker' like 工人 — it refers to a professional or practitioner in a specific field (教育工作者, 科研工作者). Think 'people who do X work' rather than a laborer.

noun
worker (in a specific field or profession)
Measure word · 位

Examples

  • 工作者。
    Xǔ duō jiào yù gōng zuò zhě zhèng zài wèi tí gāo jiào xué zhì liàng ér nǔ lì.
    Many education workers are striving to improve teaching quality.
  • 工作者。
    Shè huì gōng zuò zhě jīng cháng bāng zhù yǒu kùn nan de jiā tíng.
    Social workers often help families in need.
  • 工作者。
    Zhè xiē kē yán gōng zuò zhě zài shí yàn shì lǐ gōng zuò le shí jǐ gè xiǎo shí.
    These research workers have been working in the lab for over ten hours.

Origin

Derived word
构词法gòucífǎ
后缀hòuzhuìSuffix

A fixed syllable at the end that turns the word into a noun, a person, a place or the like.

工作work
工gōngwork作zuòdo
联合Coordinate
者zhěone who

工作 names labor or a job, and 者 turns it into a person who does such 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.

Open 工 →

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

Meaning part形符xíngfú
亻Written in full as人rénperson
Sound part声符shēngfú
乍
乍zhà作zuò
The sound has drifted apartThe sound part was a clue two thousand years ago — it often still helps, but not always.

The left side 亻 comes from 人, meaning 'person', and the right side 乍 gives the sound.

Open 作 →

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

The form 者 originally drew a sugarcane with full stems, small points around it, and an open smiling mouth at the bottom.

Open 者 →
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