HSK 4 · Work

工资 gōngzī “wages” in Chinese

Traditional 工資

What 工资 means

  1. wages
  2. pay

Measure word 份 fèn · 一份工资 yí fèn gōngzī

How to say 工资

  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale工gōng1st tone, high and level
  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale资zī1st tone, high and level

工资 in a sentence

  1. 你的第一份工资要怎么花？

    Nǐ de dìyī fèn gōngzī yào zěnme huā?

    What are you going to spend your first pay on?

    Sentence #1891204 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 这份工作工资很高。

    Zhè fèn gōngzuò gōngzī hěn gāo.

    This job pays very well.

    Sentence #8591220 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 一领到工资就把钱还给你。

    Yì lǐngdào gōngzī jiù bǎ qián huán gěi nǐ.

    I’ll pay you back as soon as I get paid.

    Sentence #348888 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 工资 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 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.

The character 资 (zī) with each of its parts in a different colour
资zīresources
  • 次order · cìSound part
  • 贝sea shell · bèiMeaning part

贝 hints at the meaning (sea shell); 次 (cì) hints at the sound. Compare it with zī.

How to write 工资

工 3 strokes · 资 10 strokes

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

Words related to 工资

Words with 工

工作gōngzuò · to work工作日gōngzuòrì · working day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工程师gōngchéngshī · engineer

Words with 资

资格zīgé · qualifications资料zīliào · material投资tóuzī · investment资金zījīn · funds资源zīyuán · resources资深zīshēn · senior物资wùzī · goods and materials资本zīběn · capital (economics)资产zīchǎn · assets资助zīzhù · to fund

More words: School, Work & Culture

专业zhuānyè · major (at university)大夫dàifu · doctor导游dǎoyóu · tour guide付款fùkuǎn · to pay a sum of money顾客gùkè · customer管理guǎnlǐ · to supervise护士hùshi · nurse记者jìzhě · reporter

FAQs

工资 (gōngzī) means “wages” or “pay”. It is an HSK 4 word.
Say it gōngzī: gōng with a 1st tone, then zī 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, 工资 is written 工資. The pronunciation is the same.
Use 份 (fèn). For example, one wages is 一份工资 (yí fèn gōngzī).
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type gongzi with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 工资 from the suggestions. Typing gongzi into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
工资 is an HSK 4 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.