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农民工

nóng mín gōng

HSK 3.0 level 7-9 3-character word Traditional 農民工

农民工 (nóng mín gōng) means "migrant worker (who moved from a rural area of China to a city to find work)". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 农民工 means

1. migrant worker (who moved from a rural area of China to a city to find work)

The characters in 农民工

• 农nóng(bound form) agriculture
• 民mín(bound form) the people; inhabitants of a country
• 工gōngwork; worker; skill

Example sentences

• 一个国家对待知识分子的态度标志着一个国家的文明程度，而一个国家对待农民工的态度则代表着一个国家的良心！
  Yī gè guójiā duìdài zhīshifènzǐ de tàidu biāozhì zhe yī gè guójiā de wénmíng chéngdù, ér yī gè guójiā duìdài nóngmíngōng de tàidu zé dàibiǎo zhe yī gè guójiā de liángxīn!
  The way a country treats its intellectuals is a sign of its civility. The way a country treats its farmers is a sign of its conscience.

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