勞工

See also: 劳工

Chinese

		toil	work; worker; skill work; worker; skill; profession; trade; craft; labour
trad. (勞工)		勞	工
simp. (劳工)		劳	工

Pronunciation 1

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): láogōng

  (Zhuyin): ㄌㄠˊ ㄍㄨㄥ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): lou⁴ gung¹
• Eastern Min (BUC): lò̤-gĕ̤ng
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): lô-kang / lô͘-kang

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: láogōng
    • Zhuyin: ㄌㄠˊ ㄍㄨㄥ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: láogong
    • Wade–Giles: lao²-kung¹
    • Yale: láu-gūng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: laugong
    • Palladius: лаогун (laogun)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /lɑʊ̯³⁵ kʊŋ⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: lou⁴ gung¹
    • Yale: lòuh gūng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: lou⁴ gung¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: lou⁴ gung¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /lou̯²¹ kʊŋ⁵⁵/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: lò̤-gĕ̤ng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /l̃o⁵³⁻⁵⁵ ^(k-)øyŋ⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: lô-kang
    • Tâi-lô: lô-kang
    • Phofsit Daibuun: loi'kafng
    • IPA (Xiamen): /lo²⁴⁻²² kaŋ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /lɤ²³⁻³³ kaŋ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /lo¹³⁻²² kaŋ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Taipei): /lo²⁴⁻¹¹ kaŋ⁴⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: lô͘-kang
    • Tâi-lô: lôo-kang
    • Phofsit Daibuun: lo'kafng
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /lɔ²⁴⁻²² kaŋ³³/

Noun

勞工

1. laborer; manual worker
2. manual work; menial labor
3. (historical) person forced to do hard labor

Synonyms

• (laborer):

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• 作穡人／作穑人 (Taiwanese Hokkien)
• 勞動者／劳动者 (láodòngzhě)
• 工人 (gōngrén)
• 工仔 (Taiwanese Hokkien)
• 打工人 (dǎgōngrén) (neologism, slang)
• 趁食人 (Hokkien)

 

Derived terms

• 勞工市場／劳工市场 (láogōng shìchǎng)
• 外勞／外劳 (wàiláo)

 

Pronunciation 2

• Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): lor⁵ gorng¹

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• Puxian Min
  • (Putian, Xianyou)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: lor⁵ gorng¹ [Phonetic: lor⁵ orng¹]
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /lɒ²¹ ^(k-)ɒŋ⁵³³/

Verb

勞工

1. (Puxian Min) to hold a sacrificial ceremony and a banquet to reward the craftsmen, relatives and friends (after the main beam is installed in a building)

References

• 莆田市政协文化文史和学习委员会 [Culture, History and Learning Committee of Putian CPPCC], editor (2021), “劳工”, in 莆仙方言大词典 [Comprehensive Dictionary of Puxian Dialect] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), Xiamen University Press, →ISBN, page 366.