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手工

shǒu gōng

Old HSK 5 HSK 3.0 level 5 2-character word

手工 (shǒu gōng) means "handwork, handmade". It is an HSK 3.0 level 5 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

What 手工 means

1. handwork
2. manual

The characters in 手工

• 手shǒuhand; (formal) to hold; person engaged in certain types of work
• 工gōngwork; worker; skill

Words starting with 手工

• 手工业shǒu gōng yèhandicraft
• 手工台shǒu gōng táiworkbench
• 手工艺shǒu gōng yìhandicraft; arts and crafts

Sounds the same

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

• 守宫gecko; house lizard

Where 手工 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Cleverness, Skill & Chess (HSK 5), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 5 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read shǒu gōng correctly.
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