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
productive labor
fatigue; weariness; weary
fatigue
eye strain
exhausted in mind and body
fall ill from long hard work
(bird species of China) brown shrike (Lanius cristatus)
(bird species of China) red-backed shrike (Lanius collurio)
TW arts and crafts (as a school subject)
able to resist hardship; hardy
St Lawrence River, Canada
to pay sb according to their productivity
the capable end up doing more work
intellectual work; mental labor
lit. the exertion of lifting one's hand (idiom)
travel-worn
toil; hard work
steppe grey shrike, a kind of bird
isabelline shrike; a desert shrike
(bird species of China) tiger shrike (Lanius tigrinus)
diligent
laborious
overwork
karoshi (loanword from Japanese), death from overwork
obesity from overwork and stress