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工资

gōng zī

Old HSK 4 HSK 3.0 level 4 2-character word Traditional 工資 Measure word 份

工资 (gōng zī) means "wages; pay". It is an HSK 3.0 level 4 word, and was HSK 4 in the old six-level list.

What 工资 means

1. wages; pay

The characters in 工资

• 工gōngwork; worker; skill
• 资zīresources; capital; to provide

Example sentences

• 您想要多少工资？
  How much do you want in terms of salary?
• 他不肯给我涨工资。
  He would not raise my salary.
• 这个月有很多工资。
  My salary was high this month.
• 她抱怨我的工资低。
  She complained about my low salary.
• 这份工作工资很高。
  That job paid well.
• 我的工资比他少多了。
  Wǒ de gōngzī bǐ tā shǎo duō le.
  My income is a far cry from his.

Words starting with 工资

• 工资卡gōng zī kǎdebit card used to receive one's salary or wages
• 工资帽gōng zī màosalary cap

Words containing 工资

• 发工资日fā gōng zī rìpayday
• 计件工资jì jiàn gōng zīpiece rate wage; remuneration based on one's output; opposite: time rate wage 计时工资
• 计时工资jì shí gōng zīpayment by the hour; time-rate wages (opposite: piece-rate wage 计件工资
• 最高工资限额zuì gāo gōng zī xiàn éwage ceiling
• 岗位工资gǎng wèi gōng zīstandard salary for a specific job (contrasted with performance pay 绩效工资
• 八级工资制bā jí gōng zī zhìeight grade wage scale (system)

Where 工资 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Business & finance (HSK 4), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 4 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read gōng zī correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.