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HSK
to work a temporary or casual job / (of students) to have a job outside of class time, or during vacation
HSK 2
staff; personnel; employee
HSK 3
artificial / manpower / manual work
HSK 3
employee; staff member; worker
HSK 3
to process / processing / working (of machinery)
HSK 3
handwork / manual
HSK 4
to divide up the work / division of labor
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
a strike / to go on strike
HSK 6
cleaner / janitor / garbage collector
HSK 6
construction / to carry out construction or large-scale repairs
HSK 7-9
to begin work (of a factory or engineering operation) / to start a construction job
HSK 7-9
to complete a project
HSK 7-9
migrant worker (who moved from a rural area of China to a city to find work)
HSK 7-9
to start (a building project)
HSK 7-9
volunteer worker / volunteer work
HSK 7-9
to slacken off in one's work / to go slow (as a form of strike)
HSK 7-9
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  *工* | 工* | *工
work / worker / skill / profession / trade / craft / labor
miner
supernaturally fine craft (idiom); the work of the Gods / uncanny workmanship / superlative craftsmanship
OEM (original equipment manufacturer)
skilled worker
chemical industry (abbr. for 化學工業|化学工业) / chemical engineering (abbr. for 化學工程|化学工程)
heavy industry
to work as a laborer
electrician / electrical engineering / electrical work (in a house)
to work for a trial period / worker on probation
secret service / special service / secret service agent / special agent
Seiko, Japanese watch and electronics company
refined / delicate / exquisite (craftsmanship)
social work / social worker
labor / laborer
to employ workers
to sell one's labor
to work with one's hands / manual work / workmanship
senior engineer (abbr. for 高級工程師|高级工程师) / (Tw) industrial vocational high school (abbr. for 高級工業職業學校|高级工业职业学校)
to be late for or absent from work / to disrupt one's work; to cause a holdup in the work / loss of working time; a holdup
temporary job; odd job
to skip work / absence without leave
to recruit employees
working woman / variant of 女紅|女红
art design / art designer
milling (machining) / milling machine operator
to do poorly done work over again / (Guangdong dialect) to go to work
to undertake to perform work within a time limit and according to specifications / to contract for a job / contractor
mason / masonry work
riveter / worker with rivets
political work / ideological work
fellow workers
nurse's aide / nursing assistant / care worker
different tunes played with equal skill (idiom) / different methods leading to the same result / different approach but equally satisfactory outcome
workplace overseer / foreman
to stop work for the day (generally of laborers) / to knock off
to go to work / to start work
child labor
male worker
river conservancy works (dike maintenance, dredging etc) / river conservancy worker
hard labor (in penal code) / coolie
young worker (esp of the CCP)
foundry work / foundry worker
temporary job / odd job / seasonal worker
to idle on the job
pottery / potter
to change workshifts
stonemasonry / stonemason
to knock off work for the day
boatman / boat builder
apprentice / trainee worker
to work as a foreman / foreman / supervisor
day labor / piece-time work
to release from work at the end of the day
laborers who carry cargo up and down the mountains on shoulder poles
planing / planing machine operator / planer
tiling / bricklaying / plastering
replacement worker / substitute worker
to record work points 工分
(of workers) to have no work to do / to be underutilized (due to lack of supplies, poor organization by management etc)
proper
factory / factory worker
unskilled worker
knife work (food preparation)
to work against the clock / to hurry with work to get it done in time
to skimp on the job / to avoid work
God of Water
porter
(Tw) a volunteer
to exchange labor / labor exchange (system of sharing workforce resources)
plumbing and electrical work / tradesman who does both plumbing and electrical work
hourly worker / hourly job
temporary worker; temp / temporary work
lathe operator / spinning wheel worker
teaching and administrative staff
to oversee workers / overseer; foreman
docker / longshoreman
lit. sharpening the axe won't make the wood-splitting take longer (idiom) / fig. time invested in preparations is not lost / a beard well lathered is half shaved
a sawyer
teaching and administrative staff
skilled worker; journeyman
foreign worker

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