工, a pictographic character of a carpenter’s square or a bladed tool, serves as a semantic as well as a phonetic component to form character.
In modern Chinese, 工 means:
1.a worker
2.an industry
3.work; job
4.man-day
5.[Formal] good at
Characters formed by the semantic component 工
工 serves as a semantic component to express things related to carpenter, craftsman, tool, etc such as 巧, 左, 巩/鞏, 项/項, 巫, 差 and so forth.
| 笔划 | 汉字 | 拼音 | 笔划 | 汉字 | 拼音 |
| 3 | 工 | gōng | 4 | 巨 | jù |
| 5 | 巧 | qiǎo | 5 | 左 | zuǒ |
| 5 | 巪 | ge xi | 6 | 巩 | gǒng |
| 7 | 巫 | wū | 9 | 差 | cī,chà,chā,chài,chāi |
| 9 | 巬 | pu | 9 | 巭 | bu |
| 12 | 巯 | qiú | 9 | 项 | xiàng |
| 14 | 巰 | qiú |
Characters formed by the phonetic component 工
功 攻 gōng
邛 筇 qióng
贡貢 唝/嗊 gòng
红 荭 虹 渱 鸿 玒 仜 妅 hóng
巩/鞏 汞 gǒng
缸 杠/槓 肛 冮 疘 矼 gāng
江 茳 豇 杢 jiāng
叿 灴 hōng
巧 窍/竅 qiǎo qiào
项 xiàng
讧/訌 hòng
扛 káng
屸 lóng
瓨 xiáng
羾 gòng
匞 jiàng