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工

工

See also: エ [U+30A8 KATAKANA LETTER E] and Appendix:Variations of "i"

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

工 (radical 48 工+0, 3 strokes, cangjie input 一中一 (MLM), four-corner 10100)

  1. Kangxi radical #48, ⼯ ‎(“work”).

Derived characters

References

  • KangXi: page 325, character 1
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 8714
  • Dae Jaweon: page 626, character 2
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 410, character 6
  • Unihan data for U+5DE5

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 工
alt. forms
 
𠜝
㠪
𢀚
𢒅
㣉
𢒄

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 工
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Bamboo and silk script Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (工) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
缸 *kroːŋ, *ɡroːŋ
篢 *kluːmʔ, *koːŋ
贑 *kluːmʔ
涳 *ŋr'oːŋ, *kʰroːŋ, *kʰoːŋ
江 *kroːŋ
肛 *kroːŋ, *qʰroːŋ
扛 *kroːŋ
杠 *kroːŋ
豇 *kroːŋ
茳 *kroːŋ
釭 *kroːŋ, *koːŋ, *kuːŋ
矼 *kroːŋ
玒 *kroːŋ, *koːŋ
虹 *kroːŋs, *koːŋs, *ɡoːŋ
腔 *kʰroːŋ
崆 *kʰroːŋ, *kʰoːŋ
羫 *kʰroːŋ
控 *kʰroːŋ, *kʰoːŋs
椌 *kʰroːŋ, *kʰoːŋ
悾 *kʰroːŋ, *kʰoːŋ, *kʰoːŋs
跫 *kʰroːŋ, *kʰoŋ, *ɡoŋ
啌 *qʰroːŋ
谾 *qʰroːŋ, *qʰoːŋ
舡 *qʰroːŋ
缻 *ɡroːŋ
項 *ɡroːŋʔ
屸 *ɡ·roːŋ
功 *koːŋ
工 *koːŋ
疘 *koːŋ
魟 *koːŋ, *qʰoːŋ, *ɡoːŋ
攻 *koːŋ, *kuːŋ
愩 *koːŋ
碽 *koːŋ
貢 *koːŋs
羾 *koːŋs
空 *kʰoːŋ, *kʰoːŋs
箜 *kʰoːŋ
硿 *kʰoːŋ
埪 *kʰoːŋ
鵼 *kʰoːŋ
倥 *kʰoːŋ, *kʰoːŋʔ, *kʰoːŋs
鞚 *kʰoːŋs
叿 *qʰoːŋ
嗊 *qʰoːŋʔ
訌 *ɡoːŋ
紅 *ɡoːŋ
仜 *ɡoːŋ
葒 *ɡoːŋ
渱 *ɡoːŋ
鴻 *ɡoːŋ, *ɡoːŋʔ
汞 *ɡoːŋʔ
澒 *ɡoːŋʔ
鞏 *koŋʔ
巩 *koŋʔ
銎 *kʰoŋ, *qʰoŋ
恐 *kʰoŋʔ, *kʰoŋs
蛩 *ɡoŋ
筇 *ɡoŋ
桏 *ɡoŋ
邛 *ɡoŋ

Pictogram (象形) – a bladed tool.

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 工
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 見 (28)
Final (韻) 東 (1)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 古紅切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /kuŋ/
Pan
Wuyun		 /kuŋ/
Shao
Rongfen		 /kuŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /kəwŋ/
Li
Rong		 /kuŋ/
Wang
Li		 /kuŋ/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /kuŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 gōng
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 工 工
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 gōng gōng
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ kuwng › ‹ kuwng ›
Old
Chinese		 /*kˤoŋ/ /*kˤoŋ/
English officer work

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 工
Reading # 1/1
No. 4022
Phonetic
component		 工
Rime
group		 東
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 公
Old
Chinese		 /*koːŋ/

Definitions

工

  1. labour; work
    工作  ―  gōngzuò  ―  work
  2. worker; laborer
    工人  ―  gōngrén  ―  worker, laborer
    陶瓷工  ―  táocígōng  ―  potter
  3. industry; profession; trade

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

工

(grade 2 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. work, craft, art, skill
  2. workman, artisan

Readings

Compounds

  • 陶工 (とうこう, tōkō)

Korean

Hanja

工 • ‎(gong)
Eumhun:

  • Sound (hangeul): 공 (McCune-Reischauer: kong, Yale: kwong)
  • Name (hangeul): 장인, 로동, 노동 (revised: jang'in, rodong, nodong, McCune-Reischauer: chang'in, rotong, notong, Yale: cang.in, lwotwong, nwotwong)
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Vietnamese

Han character

工 (công, cong, côông, gồng, trong, cung)

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