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Collins Chinese-English Dictionary

工人 [gōngrén]
  1. 1. noun worker

Comprehensive Chinese-English Dictionary

工人 [gōngrén]
  1. 1. worker; workman; hand;operative
    产业工人
    industrial worker

Contemporary Standard Chinese Dictionary

工人 [gōngrén]
  1. 1. 个人不占有任何生产资料,以出卖劳动力、靠工资收入为生的劳动者
    产业工人
    农业工人

Examples

我们的社会需要更多的知识技术型工人,即新型产业工人
We need more intellectual technicians in our society, namely "new industrial workers".
工人已经罢了三天工了。
The workers have been on strike for three days now.
培养操纵新机器的工人
train workers to operate the new machines
筑路工人长年奋战在风雪高原。
The road builders brave the wind and snow on the plateaus all the year round.
伐木工人
lumberman
纺纱工人
spinner
纺织工人
textile worker
工人文化宫
the Workers' Cultural Palace
工人和农民
workers and peasants

Word Decomposition


[gōng]
+
[rén]

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Related Measure Words

  [gè] |  一个工人
  [míng] |  一名工人
  [pī] |  一批工人
  [wèi] |  一位工人

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