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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

电工

diàngōng

electrician

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

electrician

02

electrical engineering

03

electrical work (in a house)

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 电工 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 电工 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.

萨米是名电工。sà mǐ shì míng diàn gōng。

Sami is an electrician.

我是一名电工。wǒ shì yī míng diàn gōng。

I am an electrician.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 电工.

Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 电工.

Directly before

  • 一名电工1
  • 名电工1

Directly after

  • No repeated neighbour in the corpus.
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 电工

What does 电工 mean in Chinese?

电工 (diàngōng) means electrician.

How do you pronounce 电工?

电工 is pronounced diàngōng.

Is 电工 an HSK word?

电工 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.

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