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charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *帮* | 帮* | *帮
to help / to assist / to support / for sb (i.e. as a help) / hired (as worker) / side (of pail, boat etc) / outer layer / upper (of a shoe) / group / gang / clique / party / secret society
HSK 1
worker / CL: 個|个,
HSK 1
colleague; co-worker
HSK 2
employee; staff member; worker
HSK 3
to ensure public security / to ensure safety (for workers engaged in production) / public security / security guard
HSK 3
maternal aunt / step-mother / childcare worker / nursemaid / woman of similar age to one's parents (term of address used by child) / CL: 個|个
HSK 4
master / qualified worker / respectful form of address for older men / CL: 個|个, ,
HSK 5
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *族* | 族* | *族
race / nationality / ethnicity / clan / by extension, social group (e.g. office workers 上班族)
HSK 6
blue-collar / blue-collar worker
HSK 6
migrant worker (who moved from a rural area of China to a city to find work) / temporary worker enlisted on a public project
HSK 6
used for 師傅|师傅 (in Taiwan) / master / qualified worker
HSK 6
white-collar / white-collar worker
HSK 6
people from the same workplace or profession / co-worker / colleague / pop culture enthusiasts who create fan fiction etc
HSK 7-9
(of a guard, sentry etc) to come off duty / (of a worker) be to laid off
HSK 7-9
cooperative / workers' or agricultural producers' cooperative etc
HSK 7-9
office worker / staff member / CL: 個|个,
HSK 7-9
migrant worker (who moved from a rural area of China to a city to find work)
HSK 7-9
volunteer worker / volunteer work
HSK 7-9
(fig.) malign agent who manipulates from behind the scenes / hidden hand / (Tw) mechanic / blue-collar worker / manual laborer
HSK 7-9
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *工* | 工* | *工
work / worker / skill / profession / trade / craft / labor
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *夫* | 夫* | *夫
husband / man / manual worker / conscripted laborer (old)
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *士* | 士* | *士
member of the senior ministerial class (old) / scholar (old) / bachelor / honorific / soldier / noncommissioned officer / specialist worker
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *作* | 作* | *作
(bound form) worker / (bound form) workshop / (slang) troublesome; high-maintenance (person)
office workers (as social group)
social work / social worker
to check attendance (at school or workplace) / to monitor efficiency (of workers)
skilled worker
to work for a trial period / worker on probation
labor and capital; workers and capitalists
odd-job worker (janitor, groundsman etc) at a school or government office / (old) worker / fellow worker
model worker
agricultural worker / abbr. for 農業工人|农业工人 / peasant and worker (in Marxism)
to be revealed / to come out (of the truth) / chalk (for whitening walls) / (old) wine cup / (neologism c. 2021) healthcare worker or volunteer in full-body PPE (esp. during the COVID-19 pandemic) (from the 2014 Disney version of the Marvel Comics character Baymax, whose Chinese name is 大白)
laid back; leisurely / (of resources: workers, funds etc) unused; idle
to employ workers
workshop / temporary housing for workers / workers' living quarters
office worker; clerk
gold collar / high-level senior executive / highly-skilled worker
labor / able-bodied worker / laborer / work force
to migrate to Beijing or Taipei in search of better job opportunities / migrant worker living and working in Beijing or Taipei without a residence permit
to replace (a damaged component with a new one, an injured player with a substitute player, full-time workers with casual workers etc) / a substitute / a replacement
odd jobs / part-time worker
worker's party / labor party
peasant woman (in former times) / female farm worker
riveter / worker with rivets
fellow workers
nurse's aide / nursing assistant / care worker
male worker
cook / kitchen worker
worker bee
workers and peasants
river conservancy works (dike maintenance, dredging etc) / river conservancy worker
foreign worker (abbr. for 外籍勞工|外籍劳工)
young worker (esp of the CCP)
foundry work / foundry worker
Workers' Party (Singapore opposition party)
temporary job / odd job / seasonal worker
an old horse knows the way (idiom); an experienced worker knows what to do / an old hand knows the ropes
to work for a trial period / worker on probation
labor (as opposed to capital or management) / the workers
apprentice / trainee worker
to reassign a cadre / to choose a worker to be promoted to cadre
stoker (worker operating a coal fire, esp. for a steam engine)
worker ant
replacement worker / substitute worker
(of workers) to have no work to do / to be underutilized (due to lack of supplies, poor organization by management etc)
factory / factory worker
unskilled worker
red collar / government worker
to put one's hand to sth / to set about / skillful hands / worker / writer
a jade worker / a jade statuette / a beautiful person / (term of endearment)
(of a sex worker) to solicit customers
hourly worker / hourly job
construction worker / builder
temporary worker; temp / temporary work
research worker / research personnel
maid / female servant / domestic worker / domestic helper / housekeeper
social worker
co-worker / collaborator / also collaborator with the enemy
"left-behind children", rural children whose parents have to make a living as migrant workers in distant urban areas, but cannot afford to keep the family with them
worker; laborer
to oversee workers / overseer; foreman
worker
sanitation worker
worker
(Tw) (on-site) workers' dormitory hut; workers' shed
skilled worker; journeyman
leech / bloodsucking vermin / vampire (translated European notion) / fig. cruel exploiter, esp. a capitalist exploiting the workers
Rodong Sinmun (Workers' news), the official newspaper of the North Korean WPK's Central Committee
industrial worker
operator (of a machine etc); factory worker
foreign worker
laborer; service worker (typically employed on a contractual or temporary basis)
workers, peasants, and soldiers / the proletariat
Kurdistan Worker's Party (PPK)
odd-jobs worker
to tax one's mind and body / demanding (work) / dedicated (worker) / hard-working
slave labor / slave worker
employment as sex worker / prostitution

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