職工

See also: 职工

Chinese

		office; duty	work; worker; skill work; worker; skill; profession; trade; craft; labour
trad. (職工)		職	工
simp. (职工)		职	工
anagram		工職／工职

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zhígōng

  (Zhuyin): ㄓˊ ㄍㄨㄥ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zik¹ gung¹
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): chit-kang

  (Teochew, Peng'im): zêh⁴ gang¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)
    • Hanyu Pinyin: zhígōng
    • Zhuyin: ㄓˊ ㄍㄨㄥ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jhíhgong
    • Wade–Giles: chih²-kung¹
    • Yale: jŕ-gūng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jyrgong
    • Palladius: чжигун (čžigun)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʐ̩³⁵ kʊŋ⁵⁵/
    • Homophones:

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      edit edit 執公 / 执公 職工 / 职工

• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: zik¹ gung¹
    • Yale: jīk gūng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzik⁷ gung¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: jig¹ gung¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sɪk̚⁵ kʊŋ⁵⁵/
    • Homophones:

      edit edit 織工 / 织工 職工 / 职工

• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chit-kang
    • Tâi-lô: tsit-kang
    • Phofsit Daibuun: citkafng
    • IPA (Xiamen): /t͡sit̚³²⁻⁴ kaŋ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡sit̚⁵⁻²⁴ kaŋ³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡sit̚³²⁻⁵ kaŋ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Taipei): /t͡sit̚³²⁻⁴ kaŋ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡sit̚³²⁻⁴ kaŋ⁴⁴/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: zêh⁴ gang¹
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tseh kang
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡seʔ²⁻⁴ kaŋ³³/

Noun

職工

1. employee; staff member; worker (Classifier: 個／个)

Synonyms

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• 上班族 (shàngbānzú) (office workers as a collective)
• 人員 / 人员 (rényuán)
• 僱員 / 雇员 (gùyuán)
• 員工 / 员工 (yuángōng)
• 工作人員 / 工作人员 (gōngzuò rényuán)
• 職員 / 职员 (zhíyuán)

Japanese

Kanji in this term
職	工
しょく > しょっ Grade: 5	こう Grade: 2
on'yomi

Etymology

From Dutch werklieden (“worker”).

Noun

職(しょっ)工(こう) • (shokkō) 

1. artisan, crafter
2. factory worker
   • 1925, 細井(ほそい)和喜蔵(わきぞう), “第一その梗概 [1st chapter: the outline]”, in 女工哀史 [The tragic story of female factory workers]:

     さうして「紡(つむぎ) 職工(しょっこう)」は其(そ)の父(ちち)が作った原料(げんりょう)を絲(いと)にひき布(ぬの)に織(お)って子供(こども)に着(き)せる

     And then the spinners [spinning workers] take the raw materials the fathers [the farmers] created, spin them and weave them into clothes for their children to wear.

Usage

Both senses have fallen out of usage in favour of 職人 and 工員, respectively.