劳而少功 勞而少功
劳而少功勞而少功 in English
- (idiom) To expend much effort while obtaining only a small result.
Stroke order
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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.
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 19 forms
而
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Bronze script 西周晚期 -
Clerical script 西晉 - See all 16 forms
少
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 西晉 - See all 24 forms
功
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Bronze script 戰國晚期.晉 -
Clerical script 孫吳 - See all 10 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).