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
JapaneseKana:	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
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Radical 48 orradical work (工部) meaning"work" is one of the 31Kangxi radicals (214 radicals total) composed of threestrokes.

In theKangxi Dictionary, there are 17 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under thisradical.

工 is also the 28th indexing component in theTable of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted bySimplified Chinese dictionaries published inmainland China.

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  Oracle bone script character
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  Bronze script character
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  Large seal script character
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  Small seal script character

The radical is also used as an independentChinese character. It is one of thekyōiku kanji or kanji taught in elementary school inJapan.^[1] It is a second grade kanji.^[1]

• Fazzioli, Edoardo (1987).Chinese calligraphy : from pictograph to ideogram : the history of 214 essential Chinese/Japanese characters. calligraphy by Rebecca Hon Ko. New York:Abbeville Press.ISBN 0-89659-774-1.
• Lunde, Ken (Jan 5, 2009)."Appendix J: Japanese Character Sets"(PDF).CJKV Information Processing: Chinese, Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese Computing (Second ed.).Sebastopol, Calif.:O'Reilly Media.ISBN 978-0-596-51447-1.

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