work hard

Evolution

勩 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
Definitions

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work hard; belabored; toil; (literary) toilsome; laborious; (of an edge etc) worn out; blunt

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*l[a][p]-s

yejH

toil, fatigue


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Miscellaneous

Strokes

14

Simplified

Unicode

U+52E9

Shuowen

“勩,勞也。《詩》曰:‘莫知我勩。’从力,貰聲。”


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