工党 (gōng dǎng) — Labor Party | tongtong Chinese Dictionary

Definition

工党 (Labour Party) usually refers specifically to the British Labour Party; elsewhere it just means 'workers' / 'labour party' in a political sense.

noun

Labor Party

工党。
gōng dǎng Zài zhè cì xuǎn jǔ zhōng huò dé le duō shù xí wèi.
The Labor Party won a majority of seats in this election.
工党。
gōng dǎng De zhèng cè zhù zhòng shè huì fú lì hé gōng píng fēn pèi.
The Labor Party's policies focus on social welfare and fair distribution.
工党，。
Tā jiā rù le gōng dǎng, jī jí cān yù zhèng zhì huó dòng.
He joined the Labor Party and actively participates in political activities.

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 means worker or labor and 党 means party, naming a party of workers.

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.

Meaning part形符xíngfú

儿儿érhuman

Sound part声符shēngfú

尚

Close in sound todayThe sound part was a clue two thousand years ago — it often still helps, but not always.

党 pairs 尚, giving its sound, with 儿, a human.