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Study: Places and Common Objects

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Word Number 2

work

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Primary Chinese

工作

Primary Pinyin

gōng zuò

Short Definition

Employment or purposeful labor as an activity.

Primary Meaning

从事劳动或职业活动

Primary Note

Primary profile is not generator-enabled; the go context profile is enabled.

Mapping Boundary

Correct: We go work → 我们去上班。

Incorrect: 我们去工作 for the intended routine commute

In the go-to-work context, 上班 is the traceable contextual mapping.

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