I'm just a plain office worker.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
上班族
office workers (as social group)
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
office workers (as social group)
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 上班族 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 上班族 appears in 9 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
Japanese office workers work very hard.
I'm just a plain old office worker.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 上班族.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 上班族.
Directly before
- 的上班族4
- 日本上班族1
- 老式上班族1
- 大城市上班族1
- 是上班族1
Directly after
- 上班族支撑2
- 上班族工作1
- 上班族而已1
- 上班族的1
ABOUT THIS ENTRY
Where this entry comes from
The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.
Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
COMMON QUESTIONS
About 上班族
What does 上班族 mean in Chinese?
上班族 (shàngbānzú) means office workers (as social group).
How do you pronounce 上班族?
上班族 is pronounced shàngbānzú.
Is 上班族 an HSK word?
上班族 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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