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返工

Mandarin · pinyin fǎn gōng

Meanings

  1. to do poorly done work over again
  2. (Guangdong dialect) to go to work
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返
fǎn · return, revert to, restore
工
gōng · labor, work; worker, laborer
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3–1 · fan3 gong1

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Rime Cantonese 粵拼

faan1 gung1

Cantonese word readings for 返工. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.

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verb · Etymology 1

  1. (verb-object) to redo a job that has been poorly done

verb · Etymology 2

  1. (Cantonese) to go to work

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