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务工

wù gōng

HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word Traditional 務工

务工 (wù gōng) means "to work as a laborer". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 务工 means

1. to work as a laborer

The characters in 务工

• 务wùaffair; business; matter
• 工gōngwork; worker; skill

Example sentences

• 青年农民和外出务工农民是农村网民的主力军，在对诸如网络音乐、网络游戏、网络影视等互联网娱乐功能的使用上，农村网民和城镇网民相当。
  Qīngnián nóngmín hé wàichū wùgōng nóngmín shì nóngcūn wǎngmín de zhǔlì jūn, zài duì zhūrú wǎngluò yīnyuè, wǎngluò yóuxì, wǎngluò yǐngshì děng Hùliánwǎng yúlè gōngnéng de shǐyòng shàng, nóngcūn wǎngmín hé chéngzhèn wǎngmín xiāngdāng.
  Young people and migrant workers are the bulk of rural Internet users; in terms of online music, online games, online film and television, and the Internet's capacity for entertainment, rural Internet users are equivalent to urban ones.

Words containing 务工

• 义务工作者yì wù gōng zuò zhěvolunteer; voluntary worker

Sounds the same

Read wù gōng, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 误工to be late for or absent from work; to disrupt one's work; to cause a holdup in the work…

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