láo

labor; to toil; to put sb to trouble (of doing sth)

HSK 5 #679

Character data

HSK 5
Frequency 679th character
Radical ⼒ (19.5)
Strokes 7
Index # 674
TRADITIONAL

Definitions

劳 láo
  1. 1. labor
  2. 2. to toil
  3. 3. to put sb to trouble (of doing sth)
  4. 4. laborer
  5. 5. meritorious deed
  6. 6. to console (Taiwan pr. lào for this sense)

Stroke order

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Words containing 劳

Word Meaning
(dialect) nuisance; pain
model worker
to toil to no avail
labor and management; labor and capital
to strike a balance between work and rest (idiom)
to love ease and comfort and hate work (idiom)
Browne (person name)
Ravenclaw (Harry Potter)
intellectual work; mental labor
toil; hard work
to nurture one's strength and bide one's time (idiom)
distribution according to work
to put sb to trouble (of doing sth); inconvenience
able to resist hardship; hardy
capable people take on more work
no pain, no gain (idiom)
(TCM) "five strains and seven impairments", five referring to the five viscera wǔ zàng, and seven to adverse effects on one's body as a result of: overeating (spleen), anger (liver), moisture (kidney), cold (lung), worry (heart), wind and rain (outer appearance) and fear (mind)
shrike
shrike (family Laniidae)
undue trouble
Rudolf Clausius, German physicist
Kefalonia, Greek Island in the Ionian sea
hardworking and able to bear hardship
exhausted; worn out
disorder of internal organs caused by overexertion