劳勞 in English
- (bound form) to toil / labor / (bound form) laborer / (bound form) meritorious deed / (bound form) fatigue / to put sb to the trouble (of doing sth) / to express one's appreciation (Taiwan pr. [lao4])
Stroke order
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Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
How it used to be written
These are the forms of 勞, the traditional character: 劳 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 19 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).
Examples
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中国人民非常勤劳。
The Chinese are a hard-working people.
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从来就没有徒劳的爱情。
Love is never wasted.
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他因为太疲劳而无法继续前进。
He was too tired to go any further.
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他既诚实又勤劳，而他的弟弟正好相反。
He is honest and hard-working, but his brother is the exact opposite.
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他虽然号称自己是个社会主义者，但是其实他拥有两套房子还有一辆劳斯莱斯。
He claims to be a socialist, and yet he has two houses and a Rolls Royce.
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劳动不仅是一种需要，而还是一种愉快。
Labor is not merely a necessity but a pleasure.
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劳驾，来一杯咖啡。
Could I have a cup of coffee?
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勤劳的人将获得成功人生。
An industrious person will succeed in life.