Kanji 工 — "Craft"
Here is what 工 means, how it is read, what it is built from, and a story that makes "Craft" stick.
Also means: Construction, Industry
How it is read
こう, く, ぐ
the reading borrowed from Chinese — usually appears in compound words
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the native Japanese reading — usually appears when the kanji stands alone
How to remember it
Kanji are not random strokes. Learn the parts and the whole becomes easy. Put the parts together into one picture. The stranger it is, the harder it is to forget.
Yep, Craft means craft — the kanji and component are one and the same!
- 工 Craft
It's the shape of a steel beam of a building, which represents Craft in construction.
Words that use 工
12 of 14 words in the app that contain this kanji — the most common ones first.
- 工場 こうじょう / こうば factory
- 工事 こうじ construction work
- 工業 こうぎょう (manufacturing) industry
- 細工 さいく work, craftsmanship, trick
- 大工 だいく carpenter
- 加工 かこう manufacturing, processing, treatment
- 工作 こうさく handicraft, maneuvering
- 人工 じんこう artificial, man made, human work,
- 工夫 くふう device, artifice, ingenuity
- 工員 こういん factory worker
- 着工 ちゃっこう start of (construction) work
- 工学 こうがく engineering
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