刀工
dāo gōng
Pinyin

Definition

刀工
 - 
dāo gōng
  1. knife work (food preparation)

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

刀
Dāo
  1. 1 surname Dao
员工
yuán gōng
  1. 1 staff
  2. 2 personnel
  3. 3 employee
工作
gōng zuò
  1. 1 to work
  2. 2 (of a machine) to operate
  3. 3 job
  4. 4 work
  5. 5 task
  6. 6 classifier: 个 gè
  7. 7 classifier: 份 fèn
  8. 8 classifier: 项 xiàng
工资
gōng zī
  1. 1 wages
  2. 2 pay
  3. 3 classifier: 个 gè
  4. 4 classifier: 份 fèn
  5. 5 classifier: 月 yuè
人工
rén gōng
  1. 1 artificial
  2. 2 manpower
  3. 3 manual work

Idioms (20)

一刀两断
yī dāo liǎng duàn
  1. 1 lit. two segments with a single cut (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. to make a clean break (idiom)
一刀切
yī dāo qiē
  1. 1 lit. to cut all at one stroke (idiom); to impose uniformity
  2. 2 one solution fits a diversity of problems
  3. 3 one size fits all
人为刀俎，我为鱼肉
rén wéi dāo zǔ , wǒ wéi yú ròu
  1. 1 lit. to be the meat on sb's chopping block (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. to be at sb's mercy
借刀杀人
jiè dāo shā rén
  1. 1 to lend sb a knife to kill sb
  2. 2 to get sb else to do one's dirty work
  3. 3 to attack using the strength of another (idiom)
偷工减料
tōu gōng jiǎn liào
  1. 1 to skimp on the job and stint on materials (idiom)
  2. 2 jerry-building
  3. 3 sloppy work

Sample Sentences

他们的口味都比较清爽、喜欢用糖调味，也使用很多河鲜。江苏菜更加重视汤头和刀工，比如扬州干丝，而且还有很多炖菜。浙江菜则比较爽滑，偏重小炒。
tāmen de kǒu wèi dōu bǐjiào qīngshuǎng 、xǐhuan yòng táng tiáowèi ，yě shǐyòng hěn duō héxiān 。jiāngsūcài gèngjiā zhòngshì tāngtóu hé dāogōng ，bǐrú yángzhōu gānsī ，érqiě hái yǒu hěn duō dùncài 。zhèjiāngcài zé bǐjiào shuǎnghuá ，piānzhòng xiǎochǎo 。
Their flavors are both rather mild, and they like to use sugar. They also use a lot of freshwater mollusks and shrimp. Jiangsu cooking puts more importance on soups as health food and they use knives quite a lot, with things like Yangzhou tofu, and they eat a lot of stewed foods. Zhejiang food on the other hand goes down smooth, with a lot of stir-fry.
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