廚工

Chinese

Etymology 1

		kitchen	work; worker; skill work; worker; skill; profession; trade; craft; labour
trad. (廚工)		廚	工
simp. (厨工)		厨	工

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): chúgōng

(Zhuyin): ㄔㄨˊ ㄍㄨㄥ
Cantonese (Jyutping): cyu⁴ gung¹
Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): cy² gorng¹

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: chúgōng
  - Zhuyin: ㄔㄨˊ ㄍㄨㄥ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: chúgong
  - Wade–Giles: chʻu²-kung¹
  - Yale: chú-gūng
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chwugong
  - Palladius: чугун (čugun)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʰu³⁵ kʊŋ⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: cyu⁴ gung¹
  - Yale: chyùh gūng
  - Cantonese Pinyin: tsy⁴ gung¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: qu⁴ gung¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰyː²¹ kʊŋ⁵⁵/
Puxian Min
- (Putian)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: cy² gorng¹ [Phonetic: cy⁵ orng¹]
  - Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: chṳ́-go̤ng
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰy¹³⁻¹¹ ^(k-)ɒŋ⁵³³/
- (Xianyou)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: cy² gorng¹ [Phonetic: cy⁵ orng¹]
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰy²⁴⁻²¹ ^(k-)ɒŋ⁵⁴⁴/

Noun

廚工

kitchen worker

Etymology 2

		phonetic
trad. (廚工)		廚	工
simp. (厨工)		厨	工

From Malay tukang.

Pronunciation

Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): tû-kang

Southern Min
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tû-kang
  - Tâi-lô: tû-kang
  - Phofsit Daibuun: du'kafng
  - IPA (Xiamen): /tu²⁴⁻²² kaŋ⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /tu²⁴⁻²² kaŋ³³/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /tu¹³⁻²² kaŋ⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Taipei): /tu²⁴⁻¹¹ kaŋ⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /tu²³⁻³³ kaŋ⁴⁴/

Note: exact pronunciation in Batavian Hokkien not shown.

Noun

廚工

(Batavia Hokkien) craftsman

Synonyms

匠人 (jiàngrén)
司務 / 司务
工匠 (gōngjiàng)
手作仔 (sau² zok³ zai²) (Cantonese)
手藝人 / 手艺人 (shǒuyìrén)
技工 (gei⁶ gung¹) (Cantonese)

Further reading

Salmon, Claudine (2009) “Malay (and Javanese) Loan-words in Chinese as a Mirror of Cultural Exchanges”, in Archipel‎^[1], volume 78, number 1, pages 181–208