打工
Meaning
- to work a temporary or casual job
- (of students) to have a job outside of class time, or during vacation
Example sentence
周末我在超市打工。
I work part-time at the supermarket on weekends.
Characters in 打工
- 打 dǎ a semantically light, transitive verb that is combined with various grammatical objects to form compound verbs and verb-object phrases with a diverse range of meanings (e.g. 打伞 "to hold an umbrella", 打电话 "to make a phone call", 打针 "to get an injection", 打手套 "to knit gloves", 打气 "to inflate")
- 工 gōng work, labour; skilled craft
打 to strike plus 工, labour. Doing casual or hourly work, as against holding a post.