English [1] [n] labor; work [2] [n] worker; laborer [3] [n] shift; time used in doing a piece of work [4] [n] day's work [5] [n] engineering or building project [6] [n] defense work [7] fine; delicate [8] [v] be skilled in Mandarin (hanyu pinyin) gōng Cantonese (jyutping) gung1 Hakka (phonetic) [Kwangtung] kung1 [Bao'an] kung1 [Hailu] kung1 [Siyan] kung1 [Hong Kong] kung1 [Meixian] kung1 Minnan/Taiwanese kang1 Vietnamese công Japanese kou ku Korean kong |