勞
láo

labor

劳 (勞) láo
fatigue idiom
the state of being tired or exhausted from exertion

他为了养家长期超负荷工作，终因积劳成疾而病倒了。

tā wèi​le yǎng​jiā cháng​qī chāo​fù​hè gōng​zuò, zhōng yīn jī láo chéng​jí ér bìng​dǎo le.

He worked excessive hours for a long time to support his family and finally fell ill due to overwork.

labor idiom
to toil or perform physical or mental work

我们应该明白，这种不劳而获的想法是非常错误的。

wǒ​men yīng​gāi míng​bai, zhè zhǒng bù​láo'ér​huò de xiǎng​fǎ shì fēi​cháng cuò​wù de.

We should understand that the idea of getting something for nothing is very wrong.

merit noun
a meritorious deed or achievement earned through effort

他的功劳很大。

tā de gōng láo hěn dà.

He deserves a great deal of credit.

to reward verb
to express appreciation or reward someone for their services or hard work

经理亲自去慰劳前线的员工。

jīng​lǐ qīn​zì qù wèi láo qián​xiàn de yuán​gōng.

The manager went in person to express appreciation to the frontline employees.

to trouble verb
to put someone to the trouble of doing something as a polite request

劳您费心了。

láo nín fèi​xīn le.

Thank you for your trouble.

laborer noun
a person who performs work, especially manual labor

劳方与资方在会议上就薪资待遇达成了一致意见。

láo​fāng yǔ zī​fāng zài huì​yì shàng jiù xīn​zī dài​yù dá​chéng le yī​zhì yì​jiàn.

Labor and management reached an agreement on wages and benefits at the meeting.

Frequency
Character
Written text
679th most common 290.0 per million
Movie subtitles
1,034th most common 97.7 per million appears in 33% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
8.17 per million appears in 3% of films
Written text
15.8 per million

Details
Simplified
劳
Strokes
12
Unicode
U+52DE

Sources
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)