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做工 (zuò gōng) — to do manual work; to charge for work done

Definition

做工 literally means 'do manual/labor work' — concrete physical labor, not office jobs. Also used to mean charging a fee for work done (e.g. 做工很贵).

verb
to do manual workto charge for work done

Examples

  • 。
    Tā zài gōng chǎng zuò le shí nián gōng.
    He did manual work in a factory for ten years.
  • 做工。
    Tā měi tiān qù gōng dì zuò gōng.
    He goes to the construction site to do manual work every day.
  • 做工，。
    Zhè ge shī fu zuò gōng hěn rèn zhēn, shōu fèi yě hé lǐ.
    This master worker does his work very carefully and charges reasonably.

Origin

Compound word
构词法gòucífǎ
动宾dòngbīnVerb + object

An action followed by what it acts on, fused into one word.

做zuòdo
工gōngwork

做 means to do, and 工 means work; together they mean to perform manual work.

Characters in this word

No reliable origin is recorded for this character.

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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.

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