労

労

See also: 劳

労 U+52B4, 労 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-52B4 ← 劳 [U+52B3] CJK Unified Ideographs 劵 → [U+52B5]

Translingual

Traditional	勞
Shinjitai	労
Simplified	劳

Han character

労 (Kangxi radical 19, 力+5, 7 strokes, cangjie input 火月大尸 (FBKS), composition ⿱𰃮力)

1. labor, toil, do manual work

Derived characters

• 𢭐 𭼎

References

• KangXi: not present, would follow page 147, character 7
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 2329
• Dae Jaweon: page 331, character 15
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): not present, would follow volume 1, page 369, character 1
• Unihan data for U+52B4

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Chinese

For pronunciation and definitions of 労 – see 勞 (“to toil; to do manual labour; to trouble; to disturb; etc.”). (This character, 労, is a variant form of 勞.)

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Japanese

Shinjitai	労
Kyūjitai	勞

Kanji

労

(grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji, shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai form 勞)

1. labor; labour; toil
2. trouble; pains
3. work; effort; striving

Readings

• Go-on: ろう (rō, Jōyō)^{←らう (rau, historical)}
• Kan-on: ろう (rō, Jōyō)^{←らう (rau, historical)}
• Kun: いたずき (itazuki, 労き); いたわる (itawaru, 労る); つかれる (tsukareru, 労れる); ねぎらう (negirau, 労う)

Compounds

• 労(ろう)役(えき) (rōeki)
• 労(ろう)働(どう) (rōdō)
• 労(ろう)力(りょく) (rōryoku)
• 苦(く)労(ろう) (kurō)
• 過労(かろう) (karō)
• 疲(ひ)労(ろう) (hirō)
• 労(ろう)務(む)費(ひ) (rōmuhi)
• 厚(こう)労(ろう)省(しょう) (Kōrō-shō)
• 厚(こう)生(せい)労(ろう)働(どう)省(しょう) (Kōsei-rōdō-shō)
• 過労死(かろうし) (karōshi)

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Korean

Hanja

労 • (ro) (hangeul 로, revised ro, McCune–Reischauer ro)

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