劳民动众

劳民动众 in English

láo mín dòng zhòng: (idiom) To mobilize a large number of people to carry out a task. The expression usually emphasizes the human cost or complications involved.

Character breakdown

劳勞 láo (bound form) to toil
民 mín (bound form) the people
动動 dòng (of sth) to move
众衆 zhòng (bound form) crowd

Stroke order

Le caractère 劳 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ — Numbered strokes

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 劳

Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.

Le caractère 民 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ — Numbered strokes

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 民

Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.

Le caractère 动 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ — Numbered strokes

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 动

Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.

Le caractère 众 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ — Numbered strokes

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 众

Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.

How it used to be written

劳

These are the forms of 勞, the traditional character: 劳 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 19 forms

民

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 17 forms

动

These are the forms of 動, the traditional character: 动 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.

Bronze script 西周晚期
Clerical script 東漢
See all 12 forms

Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).

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