勞工

See also: 劳工

Chinese

		toil	work; worker; skill work; worker; skill; profession; trade; craft; labour
trad. (勞工)		勞	工
simp. (劳工)		劳	工

Pronunciation 1

Mandarin
(Pinyin): láogōng

(Zhuyin): ㄌㄠˊ ㄍㄨㄥ
Cantonese (Jyutping): lou⁴ gung¹
Hakka
(Sixian, PFS): lò-kûng

(Hailu, HRS): lo gung^ˋ
Eastern Min (BUC): lò̤-gĕ̤ng
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): lô-kang / lô͘-kang

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: láogōng
  - Zhuyin: ㄌㄠˊ ㄍㄨㄥ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: láogong
  - Wade–Giles: lao²-kung¹
  - Yale: láu-gūng
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: laugong
  - Palladius: лаогун (laogun)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /lɑʊ̯³⁵ kʊŋ⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: lou⁴ gung¹
  - Yale: lòuh gūng
  - Cantonese Pinyin: lou⁴ gung¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: lou⁴ gung¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /lou̯²¹ kʊŋ⁵⁵/
Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: lò-kûng
  - Hakka Romanization System: lo^ˇ gung^ˊ
  - Hagfa Pinyim: lo² gung¹
  - Sinological IPA: /lo¹¹ kuŋ²⁴/
- (Hailu, incl. Zhudong)
  - Hakka Romanization System: lo gung^ˋ
  - Sinological IPA: /lo⁵⁵ kuŋ⁵³/
Eastern Min
- (Fuzhou)
  - Bàng-uâ-cê: lò̤-gĕ̤ng
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /l̃o⁵³⁻⁵⁵ ^(k-)øyŋ⁵⁵/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: lô-kang
  - Tâi-lô: lô-kang
  - Phofsit Daibuun: loi'kafng
  - IPA (Xiamen): /lo²⁴⁻²² kaŋ⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /lɤ²³⁻³³ kaŋ⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /lo¹³⁻²² kaŋ⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Taipei): /lo²⁴⁻¹¹ kaŋ⁴⁴/
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: lô͘-kang
  - Tâi-lô: lôo-kang
  - Phofsit Daibuun: lo'kafng
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /lɔ²⁴⁻²² kaŋ³³/

Noun

勞工

laborer; manual worker
manual work; menial labor
(historical) person forced to do hard labor

Synonyms

(laborer):

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作穡人／作穑人 (Taiwanese Hokkien)
勞動者／劳动者 (láodòngzhě)
工人 (gōngrén)
工仔 (Taiwanese Hokkien)
打工人 (dǎgōngrén) (neologism, slang)
趁食人 (Hokkien)

Derived terms

勞工市場／劳工市场 (láogōng shìchǎng)
外勞／外劳 (wàiláo)

Pronunciation 2

Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): lor⁵ gorng¹

Puxian Min
- (Putian, Xianyou)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: lor⁵ gorng¹ [Phonetic: lor⁵ orng¹]
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /lɒ²¹ ^(k-)ɒŋ⁵³³/

Verb

勞工

(Puxian Min) to hold a sacrificial ceremony and a banquet to reward the craftsmen, relatives and friends (after the main beam is installed in a building)

References

莆田市政协文化文史和学习委员会 [Culture, History and Learning Committee of Putian CPPCC], editor (2021), “劳工”, in 莆仙方言大词典 [Comprehensive Dictionary of Puxian Dialect] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), Xiamen University Press, →ISBN, page 366.