職工

See also: 职工

Chinese

		office; duty	work; worker; skill work; worker; skill; profession; trade; craft; labour
trad. (職工)		職	工
simp. (职工)		职	工
anagram		工職／工职

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): zhígōng

(Zhuyin): ㄓˊ ㄍㄨㄥ
Cantonese (Jyutping): zik¹ gung¹
Southern Min
(Hokkien, POJ): chit-kang

(Teochew, Peng'im): zêh⁴ gang¹

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)
  - Hanyu Pinyin: zhígōng
  - Zhuyin: ㄓˊ ㄍㄨㄥ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: jhíhgong
  - Wade–Giles: chih²-kung¹
  - Yale: jŕ-gūng
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jyrgong
  - Palladius: чжигун (čžigun)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʐ̩³⁵ kʊŋ⁵⁵/
  - Homophones:
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    執公 / 执公
    職工 / 职工
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: zik¹ gung¹
  - Yale: jīk gūng
  - Cantonese Pinyin: dzik⁷ gung¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: jig¹ gung¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sɪk̚⁵ kʊŋ⁵⁵/
  - Homophones:
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    織工 / 织工
    職工 / 职工
Southern Min
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chit-kang
  - Tâi-lô: tsit-kang
  - Phofsit Daibuun: citkafng
  - IPA (Xiamen): /t͡sit̚³²⁻⁴ kaŋ⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡sit̚⁵⁻²⁴ kaŋ³³/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡sit̚³²⁻⁵ kaŋ⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Taipei): /t͡sit̚³²⁻⁴ kaŋ⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡sit̚³²⁻⁴ kaŋ⁴⁴/
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: zêh⁴ gang¹
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tseh kang
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡seʔ²⁻⁴ kaŋ³³/

Noun

職工

employee; staff member; worker (Classifier: 個／个)

Synonyms

上班族 (shàngbānzú) (office workers as a collective)
人員 / 人员 (rényuán)
僱員 / 雇员 (gùyuán)
員工 / 员工 (yuángōng)
工作人員 / 工作人员 (gōngzuò rényuán)
職員 / 职员 (zhíyuán)

Japanese

Kanji in this term
職	工
しょく > しょっ Grade: 5	こう Grade: 2
on'yomi

Etymology

From Dutch werklieden (“worker”).^[1]

Noun

職(しょっ)工(こう) • (shokkō)

artisan, crafter
factory worker
- 1925, 細井(ほそい)和喜蔵(わきぞう), “第一その梗概 [1st chapter: the outline]”, in 女工哀史 [The tragic story of female factory workers]:
  さうして「紡(つむぎ) 職工(しょっこう)」は其(そ)の父(ちち)が作った原料(げんりょう)を絲(いと)にひき布(ぬの)に織(お)って子供(こども)に着(き)せる
  And then the spinners [spinning workers] take the raw materials the fathers [the farmers] created, spin them and weave them into clothes for their children to wear.

Usage

Both senses have fallen out of usage in favour of 職人 and 工員, respectively.^[1]

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典（新装版） [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN