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开工

kāi gōng

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

开工 (kāi gōng) means "to begin work (of a factory or engineering operation); to start a construction job". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 开工 means

1. to begin work (of a factory or engineering operation)
2. to start a construction job

The characters in 开工

• 开kāito open (transitive or intransitive); (of ships, vehicles, troops etc) to start…
• 工gōngwork; worker; skill

Sounds the same

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

• 开弓to draw a bow; to pull back a bowstring

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