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// Workers AI · dad joke modeWhy was Radical 48 sad? It had a root problem.

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工
← 47
Radical 48 (U+2F2F)
49 →
工 (U+5DE5) "work"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:gōng
Bopomofo:ㄍㄨㄥ
Wade–Giles:kung1
Cantonese Yale:gūng
Jyutping:gung1
Pe̍h-ōe-jī:kong
Japanese Kana:コウ kō (on'yomi)
たくみ takumi (kun'yomi)
Sino-Korean:공 gong
Names
Chinese name(s):工字旁 gōngzìpáng
Japanese name(s):工/こう kō
工/たくみ takumi
工偏/たくみへん takumihen
エ/え e
Hangul:장인 jang'in
Stroke order animation

Radical 48 or radical work (工部) meaning "work" is one of the 31 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals total) composed of three strokes.

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 17 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

工 is also the 28th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.

Evolution

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工

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巨

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Originally meant carpenter's square (矩).

巫

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Derived characters

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StrokesCharacters
+0工
+2左 巧 巨
+3巩 (also SC form of 鞏 -> Radical 177) 巪KO
+4巫
+6差SC variant
+7差TC/JP/KO variant
+9巯SC (=巰)
+10巰

Sinogram

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The radical is also used as an independent Chinese character. It is one of the kyōiku kanji or kanji taught in elementary school in Japan.[1] It is a second grade kanji.[1]

References

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  1. 1 2 "The Kyoiku Kanji (教育漢字) - Kanshudo". www.kanshudo.com. Archived from the original on March 24, 2022. Retrieved 2023-05-06.

Literature

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