星圖

The 工 family

工 · gōng · ㄍㄨㄥ — work

Know 工 and the readings of 6 more characters follow: 空、功、攻、紅、貢、虹. In traditional Chinese, most characters carry a sound component — a phonetic — and learning the phonetic once lights up its whole family. This page is that family, drawn live from the map.

工 gōng · work工空 kōng · sound from 工 · 64%空功 gōng · sound from 工 · 86%功攻 gōng · sound from 工 · 86%攻紅 hóng · sound from 工 · 64%紅貢 gòng · sound from 工 · 77%貢虹 hóng · sound from 工 · 64%虹工作 gōngzuò · to work工作特工 tègōng · secret service特工工廠 gōngchǎng · factory工廠工程 gōngchéng · engineering工程工具 gōngjù · tool工具工人 gōngrén · worker工人員工 yuángōng · staff員工工資 gōngzī · wages工資打工 dǎgōng · to work a temporary or casual job打工工作室 gōngzuòshì · studio工作室工業 gōngyè · industry工業開工 kāigōng · to begin work (of a factory or engineering operation)開工工會 gōnghuì · labor union工會人工 réngōng · artificial人工

The characters

One sound, many meanings: the 部首 beside each character is the other half of the pair, the part that tells them apart.

The percentage is our computed confidence that 工 really signals that character’s sound — scored from how closely the readings agree and how reliably 工 predicts the sound of every character built on it. Mean for this family: 74%.

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