漢字Kanji · in Action & Movement
労: labor, thank for
Also: reward for, toil, trouble
JLPT N37 strokesGrade 4Your ink: 白 Not met
力 carries the meaning · ⺍ and 冖 are drawn in
7 strokes
Small seal · Qin Today
Small seal: Wikimedia Commons, public domain. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
One reading, and the words that use it
ロウrou · on'yomi · in compounds
- 労力ろうりょくlabor, effort, toil, trouble
- 労働ろうどうmanual labor, toil, work
- 労働時間ろうどうじかんworking hours, man-hours
- 労働条件ろうどうじょうけんworking conditions
- 労働組合ろうどうくみあいlabor union
- 心労しんろうanxiety, worry, fear
- 勤労きんろうlabor, exertion, diligent service
- 苦労するくろうするundergo hardship, suffer
- 疲労するひろうするbe tired
Also read ろうする, いたわる, いたずき, ねぎら, つかれる, ねぎらう, with no example words in our sources. Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Origin · sourced
Phono-semantic compound (形聲)𬡤 (sound) + 力 (meaning)
Source: Wiktionary, 勞 (rev. 92810956), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Flex your arm and feel the power! That's 力, representing the raw muscle and effort required to change the world.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
In ChineseSimplified 劳 · traditional 勞 · láo
Three different forms: Japanese 労, simplified 劳, traditional 勞.
- Simplified
- 劳 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 勞 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin láo most common reading
Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.
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