HSK 6 · Work

罢工 bàgōng “to go on strike” in Chinese

Traditional 罷工

What 罢工 means

  1. to go on strike
  2. strike

How to say 罢工

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale罢bà4th tone, falling
  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale工gōng1st tone, high and level

罢工 in a sentence

  1. 他们已经取消了罢工。

    Tāmen yǐjīng qǔxiāo le bàgōng.

    They’ve already called off the strike.

    Sentence #5763010 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 罢工妨碍了国家经济。

    Bàgōng fáng'ài le guójiā jīngjì.

    The strike hurt the country’s economy.

    Sentence #819787 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 罢工 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 罢 (bà) with each of its parts in a different colour
罢bàto stop
  • 罒net form of 网 · wǎng
  • 去to go away · qù
The character 工 (gōng) with each of its parts in a different colour
工gōngwork
  • 一one · yī
  • 丄above · shàng

Memory aidDrawn from a builder’s tool: work.

How to write 罢工

罢 10 strokes · 工 3 strokes

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罢工 (bàgōng) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 罢工 (bàgōng). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 罢工

Words with 工

工作gōngzuò · to work工作日gōngzuòrì · working day工资gōngzī · wages工厂gōngchǎng · factory打工dǎgōng · to work a casual or part-time job工人gōngrén · worker工业gōngyè · industry员工yuángōng · employee工具gōngjù · tool手工shǒugōng · handmade

More words: Work & Career

主任zhǔrèn · director资格zīgé · qualifications资料zīliào · material总裁zǒngcái · president (of a company)把关bǎguān · to check (quality)报酬bàochou · pay保姆bǎomǔ · nanny报销bàoxiāo · to claim reimbursement

FAQs

罢工 (bàgōng) means “to go on strike” or “strike”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it bàgōng: bà with a 4th tone, then gōng with a 1st tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 罢工 is written 罷工. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type bagong with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 罢工 from the suggestions. Typing bagong into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
罢工 is an HSK 6 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.