务工

務工

wùgōng

verb #46,530

Meanings

1 to work as a laborer
2 to do manual work (esp. as a migrant worker)

Characters

to be engaged in / affairs

Examples

很多农村青年到城市务工。

Hěn duō nóngcūn qīngnián dào chéngshì wùgōng.

Many rural youth go to the cities to work as laborers.

他在广东务工已经十年了。

Tā zài Guǎngdōng wùgōng yǐjīng shí nián le.

He's been working as a migrant laborer in Guangdong for ten years now.

Tips

usage

务工 almost always implies away-from-home manual labor, and is the standard word in 农民工 (migrant worker) discourse and policy documents. 外出务工 (to leave home to work) is the set phrase you see in rural context.

Stroke Order

务 wù

工 gōng