Where does “đi công tác” come from?

đi công tác (Vietnamese) comes from Vietnamese công tác, from Chinese 工作 — to work; work; job.

đi công tác (Vietnamese): to go on a business trip

Definitions

  1. to go on a business trip

Ancestry of “đi công tác”, step by step

đi công tác traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Vietnamese công tác

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Vietnamesecông táca government or business mission or task; a...
2Chinese工作to work; work; job

via Vietnamese đi

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Vietnameseđito go; to wear footwear; used sentence-finally to...
2Proto-Vietictiːto go
Every word from Chinese 工作 →Every word from Vietnamese công tác →