The kanji 労: meaning, readings and stroke order
労
- Meaning
- hard work, labor
- On reading
- ロウ rou
- Kun reading
- —
- Strokes
- 7
- Radical
- 力 power, force
- Level
- Level 4 · grade 4
- Old form
- 勞
Stroke order
Meaning in other languages
- Vietnamese
- vất vả, lao động (lao)
- Japanese
- ほねおり。はたらく こと。
- Korean
- 수고, 노동 (노·로)
- Chinese
- 辛苦、劳动 (劳)
Readings, words and example sentences
ロウ rou · on reading
苦労
hard work, trouble
苦労して 作品を 完成しました。
It was hard work, but I finished my piece.
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Readings, radicals: Kanjium, KANJIDIC2 (CC BY-SA 4.0); strokes: KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0); Korean, simplified forms: Unicode Unihan. Meanings, sentences: Dino Kids (CC0). See Licences.