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打工

dǎ gōng

Old HSK 5 HSK 3.0 level 4 2-character word

打工 (dǎ gōng) means "to work a temporary/casual job". It is an HSK 3.0 level 4 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

What 打工 means

1. to work a temporary or casual job
2. (of students) to have a job outside of class time, or during vacation

The characters in 打工

• 打dǎa semantically light, transitive verb that is combined with various grammatical objects…
• 工gōngwork; worker; skill

Words starting with 打工

• 打工仔dǎ gōng zǎiyoung worker; employee; young male worker
• 打工妹dǎ gōng mèiyoung female worker
• 打工人dǎ gōng rénworker

Where 打工 is taught

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

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