láo

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

Character data

Radical ⼒ (19.10)
Strokes 12
SIMPLIFIED

Definitions

勞 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)

Words containing 勞

Word Meaning
relations between labor and employer; industrial relations
wearied; (literary) fatigued
excuse me
diligent and able to endure hardship (idiom)
hardworking; diligent; industrious
Poverty is a stranger to industry. (idiom)
worker
to become rich by one's own efforts; self-made
one able to do light manual labor only
(bird species of China) southern grey shrike (Lanius meridionalis)
Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare (Japan)
Strauss (name) (Tw)
hardworking and enduring hardships (idiom)
to offer condolences; Taiwan pr. yàn lào
International Labor Day (May 1); May Day
International Labor Organization
foreign worker; abbr. for wài jí láo gōng
foreign worker
work more and get more
to love ease and comfort and hate work (idiom)
Browne (person name)
Republic of Palau or Belau (Pacific island nation)
forced labor (as punishment in criminal case)
futile
to work to no avail (idiom)