轎工

Chinese

		sedan chair	work; worker; skill work; worker; skill; profession; trade; craft; labour
trad. (轎工)		轎	工
simp. (轿工)		轿	工

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): jiàogōng

  (Zhuyin): ㄐㄧㄠˋ ㄍㄨㄥ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: jiàogōng
    • Zhuyin: ㄐㄧㄠˋ ㄍㄨㄥ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jiàogong
    • Wade–Giles: chiao⁴-kung¹
    • Yale: jyàu-gūng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jiawgong
    • Palladius: цзяогун (czjaogun)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕi̯ɑʊ̯⁵¹ kʊŋ⁵⁵/

Noun

轎工

1. sedan chair carrier

   • 辦農會的人對農民說：「你們打轎子，反倒替闊人省了錢，轎工要失業，豈非害了自己？」農民們想清了，出了新法子，就是大漲轎工價，以此懲富人。 [MSC, trad.]
     办农会的人对农民说：「你们打轿子，反倒替阔人省了钱，轿工要失业，岂非害了自己？」农民们想清了，出了新法子，就是大涨轿工价，以此惩富人。 [MSC, simp.]

     From: 1927, 毛澤東 (Mao Zedong), 《湖南農民運動考察報告》 (Report on an Investigation of the Peasant Movement in Hunan), 《毛澤東選集》. English translation based on the Foreign Languages Press edition

     Bàn nónghuì de rén duì nóngmín shuō: “Nǐmen dǎ jiàozi, fǎndào tì kuòrén shěng le qián, jiàogōng yào shīyè, qǐfēi hài le zìjǐ?” Nóngmínmen xiǎng qīng le, chū le xīn fǎzi, jiùshì dà zhǎng jiàogōng jià, yǐcǐ chéng fùrén. [Pinyin]

     Association officials tell the peasants, “If you smash the chairs, you only save the rich money and lose the carriers their jobs. Will that not hurt our own people?” Seeing the point, the peasants have worked out a new tactic – considerably to increase the fares charged by the chair carriers so as to penalize the rich.