Zi:工

工 [gōng] (工​作 gōngzuò) work; 工​人 gōngrén worker

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“Picture of a carpenter’s square” —Karlgren.
    “Going back to the older forms of the character, it is obvious that many have a heavy lower part that could be interpreted as the stone used to pound the earth; the upper part in that case would be the shaft or handle” —Lindqvist.
►references: Guǎngyùn:029.02; Wieger:82a; Henshall:113; Karlgren:AD469,GSR1172a; Hànyǔ Dà Zìdiǎn:1.410.6; Lindqvist:261; Mathews:3697; Kāngxī Zìdiǎn:325.01; Bǐshùn Guīfàn:002.1.01
►Cantonese: gung\
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Unicode: U+5DE5
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