仵工

wǔgōng
noun

Meanings

  1. 1 pallbearer
  2. 2 funeral worker who carries the coffin

Examples

Jǐ gè wǔgōng xiǎoxīnyìyì de tái qǐ guāncai.
Several pallbearers carefully lifted the coffin.
Jiùshí wǔgōng shì dījiàn de zhíyè zhī yī.
In former times, pallbearer was considered one of the lowly professions.

Tips

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Old-fashioned and largely literary — modern Chinese tends to say (tái guān rén) or 殡仪 (bìnyígōng). also appears in (wǔzuò), the historical title for a coroner who examined corpses, which you'll see in court-case fiction.

Stroke Order

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