干活儿 gànhuór to work; to do manual labour (spoken, erhua)
How to remember 干活儿: 干 do + 活 alive + 儿 son = to work; to do manual labour (spoken, erhua).
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How it is used
- Colloquial, erhua variant of 干活 (gànhuó) - northern spoken Mandarin, common in Beijing-area speech.
- Means to do physical/manual labor, distinct from 工作 (gōngzuò, work in general) and 上班 (shàngbān, to go to a job).
- 我得去干活儿了 (wǒ děi qù gànhuór le) - I've got to go do some work.
- 别偷懒,快干活儿! (bié tōulǎn, kuài gànhuór!) - stop slacking, get to work!