劳
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(bound form) to toil; labor; (bound form) laborer; (bound form) meritorious deed; (bound form) fatigue; to put sb to the trouble (of doing sth); (bound form) to express appreciation for sb's efforts (Taiwan pr. [lao4])
- HSK 3.0
- Level 5
- Old HSK
- Level 5
- Strokes
- 7
- Radical
- 力 +6
- Structure
- Top–bottom 上下
- Traditional
- 劳
- Common rank
- #490
- Unicode
- U+52B3
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Formation & memory
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How to remember it
labor · Heisig RSH #868
greenhouse + 力 power
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 劳
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 拉文克劳 | Ravenclaw (Harry Potter) | |
| 体力劳动 | physical labor | |
| 劳动人民 | working people; the workers of Socialist theory or of the glorious Chinese past | |
| 克劳斯 | Claus or Klaus (name) | |
| 劳动合同 | labor contract; contract between employer and employees governing wages and conditions | |
| 劳动力 | labor force; manpower | |
| 多劳多得 | work more and get more | |
| 生产劳动 | productive labor | |
| 克劳德 | Claude (name) | |
| 半劳动力 | one able to do light manual labor only; semi-able-bodied or part time (farm) worker | |
| 劳动能力 | ability to work | |
| 劳动者 | worker; laborer | |
| 劳动报 | Trud (Russian newspaper) | |
| 脑力劳动 | mental labor; intellectual work | |
| 劳动节 | International Labor Day (May Day) | |
| 能者多劳 | (idiom) it's the most capable people who do the most work (intended as consolation for the… | |
| 眼过劳 | eye strain | |
| 劳心 | to work with one's brains; to rack one's brains; to worry | |
| 国际劳动节 | May Day; International Labor Day (May 1) | |
| 劳力士 | Rolex (Swiss wristwatch brand) |
Sound family
These characters use 劳 as their sound component — compare how they read.