能者多劳 能者多勞
能者多劳能者多勞 in English
- it's the most capable people who do the most work (idiom) (intended as consolation for the overworked, or flattery when making a request etc)
Character breakdown
Stroke order
Show the animation Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
Show the animation Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
Show the animation Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
Show the animation 
Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
How it used to be written
能
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Bronze script 西周早期 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 14 forms
者
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Bronze script 商代晚期 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 30 forms
多
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 12 forms
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
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).