長工

See also: 长工

Chinese

		long; length; forever long; length; forever; always; constantly; chief; head; elder; to grow; to develop	work; worker; skill work; worker; skill; profession; trade; craft; labour
trad. (長工)		長	工
simp. (长工)		长	工

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): chánggōng

(Zhuyin): ㄔㄤˊ ㄍㄨㄥ
Cantonese (Jyutping): coeng⁴ gung¹
Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): dung² gang¹ / dng² gang¹
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): tn̂g-kang

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: chánggōng
  - Zhuyin: ㄔㄤˊ ㄍㄨㄥ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: chánggong
  - Wade–Giles: chʻang²-kung¹
  - Yale: cháng-gūng
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: charnggong
  - Palladius: чангун (čangun)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʰɑŋ³⁵ kʊŋ⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: coeng⁴ gung¹
  - Yale: chèuhng gūng
  - Cantonese Pinyin: tsoeng⁴ gung¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: cêng⁴ gung¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰœːŋ²¹ kʊŋ⁵⁵/
Puxian Min
- (Putian)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: dung² gang¹ [Phonetic: dung⁵ ngang¹]
  - Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: dńg-gang
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tuŋ¹³⁻¹¹ ^(k-)ŋaŋ⁵³³/
- (Xianyou)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: dng² gang¹ [Phonetic: dng⁵ ngang¹]
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tŋ̍²⁴⁻²¹ ^(k-)ŋaŋ⁵⁴⁴/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tn̂g-kang
  - Tâi-lô: tn̂g-kang
  - Phofsit Daibuun: dngkafng
  - IPA (Xiamen): /tŋ̍²⁴⁻²² kaŋ⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /tŋ̍²⁴⁻²² kaŋ³³/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /tŋ̍¹³⁻²² kaŋ⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Taipei): /tŋ̍²⁴⁻¹¹ kaŋ⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /tŋ̍²³⁻³³ kaŋ⁴⁴/

Noun

長工

permanent or longterm employment
permanent or longterm employee

Synonyms

(permanent or longterm employment): 長活／长活 (chánghuó)
(permanent or longterm employee): (regional) 長活／长活 (chánghuó), 長年／长年 (chángnián)

References

李如龙 [Li, Ru-long], 刘福铸 [Liu, Fu-zhu], 吴华英 [Wu, Hua-ying], 黄国城 [Huang, Guo-cheng] (2019) “872 长工”, in 莆仙方言调查报告 [Investigation Report on Puxian Dialect] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), Xiamen University Press, →ISBN, page 377.