Yǒurén fāxiàn yí ge lǎo gōngrén zài chējiān xiū jīqì.
Someone found an old worker repairing machinery in the workshop.
Sentence #1577191 from Tatoeba · translation adapted
How 工人 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.
工gōngwork
一one · yī
丄above · shàng
Memory aidDrawn from a builder’s tool: work.
人rénperson; people
人 is a single shape of 2 strokes. Learn it whole, then watch its stroke order below.
Memory aidA person walking, seen from the side: two legs.
How to write 工人
工 3 strokes · 人 2 strokes
Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.
Stroke order chart for 工人 (gōngrén). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.
Say it gōngrén: gōng with a 1st tone, then rén with a 2nd tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 工人 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Use 个 (gè) or 名 (míng). For example, one worker is 一个工人 (yí ge gōngrén).
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type gongren with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 工人 from the suggestions. Typing gongren into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
工人 is an HSK 5 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.
工gōng1st tone, high and level
人rén2nd tone, rising
