苦役
kǔ​yì

hard labor

  • created sense approved 苦役 · kǔ​yì · hard labor — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    苦役

    kǔ​yì

    hard labor

    forced labor; penal servitude; heavy and exhausting physical work performed under compulsion

    苦 (literal) → 苦 · kǔ · miserable 役 (literal) → 役 · yì · corvée

    Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition

    created sense