工作
gōng zuò
In real, traceable use. Part of the curated seed collection; community review is coming.
To work, to have a job; as a noun, a job or one's work. As a verb it follows the place: 在医院工作 'to work in a hospital'. As a noun: 找工作 'look for a job', 工作很忙 'work is busy'. Going in to work for the day is 上班.
Làm việc; cũng là danh từ: công việc, việc làm. Làm động từ thì đứng sau cụm chỉ nơi chốn: 在医院工作 (làm việc ở bệnh viện). Làm danh từ: 找工作 (tìm việc), 工作很忙 (công việc rất bận). Còn “đi làm” hằng ngày là 上班.
VerbRegister: neutral
Examples
Editorial example (illustrative, not a corpus attestation) — awaiting a native-speaker check
Sources & notes
Hán-Việt bridge batch 063 (2026-11-14). Headword, Traditional form and pinyin checked against CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0) source ↗ · Hán-Việt reading: Unihan kVietnamese source ↗ · Vietnamese cognate: Idiomer entry “công tác” (cong-tac). Definition, literal gloss and example sentence are original; the example has not had a native-speaker check yet.
Equivalents & related
Common questions
What does “工作” mean?
To work, to have a job; as a noun, a job or one's work. As a verb it follows the place: 在医院工作 'to work in a hospital'. As a noun: 找工作 'look for a job', 工作很忙 'work is busy'. Going in to work for the day is 上班. Literally: work and do
Is “工作” formal or informal?
工作 is generally neutral.