Meaning of 工作日
Definitions from CC-CEDICT.
- workday
- working day
- weekday
How to use 工作日
工作日 refers to the days people normally go to work, usually Monday to Friday, and it often appears in notices about deliveries, bank processing or office hours. Example: 退款会在三个工作日内到账。(Tuìkuǎn huì zài sān gè gōngzuòrì nèi dàozhàng.) The refund will arrive within three working days.
工作 (gōngzuò) means work and 日 (rì) means day, so 工作日 is simply a work day. Picture 日 as a little sun rising over your office: the sun comes up, and you go to work.
Common mistake: Learners sometimes say 工作天, which is not standard. The fixed word is 工作日. Also, "three working days" is not the same as 三天 (sān tiān), because weekends and holidays are not counted.
工作日 in example sentences
Real sentences from the Tatoeba project, with pinyin and English.
Stroke order for each character
Open a character for its meaning, components and more words.
工 gōng · labor · 3 strokes
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作 zuò · to do · 7 strokes
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日 rì · sun · 4 strokes
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Related words
Words that share a character with 工作日.
| 工作 | gōngzuò | to work; (of a machine) to operate |
| 生日 | shēngrì | birthday |
| 动作 | dòngzuò | movement; motion; action; to act; to move |
| 工人 | gōngrén | worker |
| 日期 | rìqī | date |
| 星期日 | xīngqīrì | Sunday |
| 日子 | rìzi | day; a (calendar) date |
| 作用 | zuòyòng | to act on; to affect; action; function; activity |
| 作家 | zuòjiā | author |
| 作业 | zuòyè | school assignment; homework |
| 打工 | dǎgōng | to work a temporary or casual job; (of students) to have a job outside of class time, or d |
| 节日 | jiérì | holiday; festival |
Questions about 工作日
What does 工作日 mean?
工作日 (gōngzuòrì) means "workday; working day" and is used as a noun.
How do you write 工作日?
工作日 is made of 3 characters: 工 (3 strokes), 作 (7 strokes), 日 (4 strokes). That is 14 strokes in total.
Is 工作日 an HSK word?
Yes. 工作日 is on the HSK 5 vocabulary list of the HSK 3.0 standard.
What is the opposite of 工作日 in Chinese?
The usual opposite is 休息日 (xiūxirì), a rest day. You can also say 周末 (zhōumò) for the weekend, or 节假日 (jiéjiàrì) for holidays.
Can a Saturday be a 工作日 in China?
Yes. Around long holidays, China often swaps days, so some weekends become official working days. People call this 调休 (tiáoxiū).