Learn Chinese for Free - Lesson 40
Today's Chinese characters:
工作
Chinese people will often ask you: "Are you busy with your work?" Today you're going to learn to understand them and to reply to their question.
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Characters' Essentials
Description and Examples
Word
工作
Pronunciation 
Meaning
Work, operation, working, operating, job
Word
工人
Pronunciation
Meaning
Worker, workman, factory-hand
Word
工日
Pronunciation
Meaning
Work day
Dialogue 22
A:
你早！
B:
你早！
A:
你工作忙吗？
B:
很忙。你呢？
A:
我不忙。
B:
你父母身体好吗？
A:
他们都很好，谢谢！
B:
他们工作忙吗？
A:
他们也不忙。
Dialogue 23
A:
今天是不是工日？
B:
今天星期天，不是工日。
Dialogue 24
A:
你父亲是不是工人？
B:
是。
Sentence Structure 25 |
Exercise
Complete the following sentences with nominal predicates:
今天星期六，明天_______。
十月七号星期日，十月八号_______。
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Characters' Details
Chinese Character 80 of 1000
appearance score: # 118
frequency: 0.1640958%
Character
工
Animation
Strokes
3
Pronunciation
Meaning
| - | Work, labor; worker, working class; project, engineering; industry; working-day; craftsmanship, skill; (a note, equivalent to 3, of the scale in gongchepu, a traditional Chinese musical notation) |
| - | Be good at, be expert in |
| - | Exquisite, delicate |
There's no difference between the simplified and the traditional version of this character.
Chinese Character 81 of 1000
appearance score: # 49
frequency: 0.2805063%
Character
作
Animation
Strokes
7
Pronunciation
Meaning
| - | Rise, get up, stand up; write, compose; pretend, assume, affect; regard as, look on as, take for; have, feel; act as, be, become; do, make |
| - | Writings, work |
| - | (A surname) |
Pronunciation
Meaning
| - | Workshop, mill |
| - | Do |
Pronunciation
Meaning
| - | (First character of a few Chinese words like 作料, condiments, seasoning, and 作兴, there's reason to, perhaps, maybe.) |
There's no difference between the simplified and the traditional version of this character.
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