Read Edit View history 苦力 kǔlì HSK7 coolie Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 苦力 kǔlì coolie noun an unskilled manual laborer, especially referring to those in colonial times 旧社会有很多中国人被骗到海外去当苦力。 jiù shèhuì yǒu hěnduō Zhōngguórén bèi piàn dào hǎiwài qù dāng kǔlì. In the old society, many Chinese people were tricked into going overseas to work as coolies. hard toil noun arduous physical labor or bitter work 他在矿场干这种苦力已经好几年了。 tā zài kuàngchǎng gàn zhè zhǒng kǔlì yǐjīng hǎojǐ nián le. He has been doing this kind of hard labor at the mine for several years. Frequency Movie subtitles 1.52 per million appears in 1% of films Written text 1.27 per million Details HSK 3.0 Level 7 Sources Definitions CC-CEDICT Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
苦力 kǔlì coolie noun an unskilled manual laborer, especially referring to those in colonial times 旧社会有很多中国人被骗到海外去当苦力。 jiù shèhuì yǒu hěnduō Zhōngguórén bèi piàn dào hǎiwài qù dāng kǔlì. In the old society, many Chinese people were tricked into going overseas to work as coolies. hard toil noun arduous physical labor or bitter work 他在矿场干这种苦力已经好几年了。 tā zài kuàngchǎng gàn zhè zhǒng kǔlì yǐjīng hǎojǐ nián le. He has been doing this kind of hard labor at the mine for several years. Frequency Movie subtitles 1.52 per million appears in 1% of films Written text 1.27 per million Details HSK 3.0 Level 7 Sources Definitions CC-CEDICT Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)