工
gōng HSK1

work

工 gōng
profession noun
a specific branch of industry or a specialized trade

古人常将社会阶层划分为士、农、工、商。

gǔ​rén cháng jiāng shè​huì jiē​céng huà​fēn wéi shì, nóng, gōng, shāng.

Ancient people often divided society into four classes: scholars, farmers, artisans, and merchants.

skill noun
craftsmanship or technical proficiency in a specific task

这件刺绣作品的工非常精细。

zhè jiàn cì​xiù zuò​pǐn de gōng fēi​cháng jīng​xì.

The workmanship of this embroidery is very fine.

job/work noun
referring to a job, task, or unit of labor, often used in contexts of employment or quantity of work.

他今天找了一份工。

tā jīn​tiān zhǎo le yī fèn gōng.

He found a job today.

Frequency
Character
Written text
118th most common 1641.0 per million
Movie subtitles
185th most common 951.0 per million appears in 91% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
32.6 per million appears in 11% of films
Written text
93.1 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 1
HSK 3.0
Level 1
Strokes
3
Unicode
U+5DE5

Sources
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)