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Mythic Mandarin

劳 (láo): meaning and stroke order

劳 (láo) means (bound form) to toil; labor, (bound form) laborer, (bound form) meritorious deed.

劳

Simplified
劳
Traditional
勞
Pinyin
láo

Stroke order of 劳

劳

  • láo (bound form) to toil; labor; (bound form) laborer
  • 7 strokes
  • Traditional form: 勞

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 劳

  1. láo Traditional 勞
    • (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])

Radical and structure

劳
Radical 力 (Kangxi radical 19) · 8 strokes · 𫇦 on top, 力 below

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

Words with 劳

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).