勞

See also: 劳 and 労

Translingual

Traditional	勞
Shinjitai	労
Simplified	劳

Han character

勞 (Kangxi radical 19, 力+10, 12 strokes, cangjie input 火火月大尸 (FFBKS), four-corner 9942₇, composition ⿱𤇾力)

Derived characters

• 澇, 嘮, 嶗, 蟧, 磱, 憥, 簩, 撈, 僗, 憦, 橯, 耮, 軂

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 148, character 35
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 2410
• Dae Jaweon: page 335, character 11
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 376, character 17
• Unihan data for U+52DE

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Chinese

trad.		勞
simp.		劳
alternative forms		労

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (勞) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
勞	*raːw, *raːws
撈	*raːw, *reːw
嘮	*ruːw, *hr'aːw
癆	*raːw, *raːw, *raːws
簩	*raːw
蟧	*raːw, *reːw
憥	*raːw
澇	*raːwʔ, *raːws
僗	*raːws
髝	*raːws
膋	*reːw
犖	*rraːwɢ

Ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : abbreviated 熒 + 力.

Pronunciation 1

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 勞

1. to toil; to do manual labour
2. (polite) to trouble; to disturb
3. fatigued; tired
4. labour; toil; work
5. meritorious deed
6. labourer; worker
7. a surname

Pronunciation 2

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): láo, lào

  (Zhuyin): ㄌㄠˊ, ㄌㄠˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): lou⁶ / lou⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Mainland)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: láo
    • Zhuyin: ㄌㄠˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: láo
    • Wade–Giles: lao²
    • Yale: láu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: lau
    • Palladius: лао (lao)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /lɑʊ̯³⁵/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, Taiwan)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: lào
    • Zhuyin: ㄌㄠˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: lào
    • Wade–Giles: lao⁴
    • Yale: làu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: law
    • Palladius: лао (lao)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /lɑʊ̯⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: lou⁶ / lou⁴
    • Yale: louh / lòuh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: lou⁶ / lou⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: lou⁶ / lou⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /lou̯²²/, /lou̯²¹/

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• Middle Chinese: lawH

Rime
Character	勞
Reading #	2/2
Initial (聲)	來 (37)
Final (韻)	豪 (89)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	郎到切
Baxter	lawH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/lɑuH/
Pan Wuyun	/lɑuH/
Shao Rongfen	/lɑuH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/lawH/
Li Rong	/lɑuH/
Wang Li	/lɑuH/
Bernard Karlgren	/lɑuH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	lào
Expected Cantonese Reflex	lou6

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[r]ˤaw-s/

  (Zhengzhang): /*raːws/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	勞
Reading #	2/2
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	lào
Middle Chinese	‹ lawH ›
Old Chinese	/*[r]ˁaw-s/
English	to reward for toil
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	勞
Reading #	2/2
No.	7657
Phonetic component	勞
Rime group	宵
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	嫪
Old Chinese	/*raːws/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 勞

1. to encourage; to console

   唁勞／唁劳  ―  yànláo  ―  to offer condolences

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Japanese

Shinjitai	労
Kyūjitai	勞

Kanji

勞

(Hyōgai kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 労)

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Readings

• Go-on: ろう (rō)^{←らう (rau, historical)}
• Kan-on: ろう (rō)^{←らう (rau, historical)}
• Kun: いたずき (itazuki, 勞き); いたわる (itawaru, 勞る); つかれる (tsukareru, 勞れる); ねぎらう (negirau, 勞う)

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Korean

Hanja

勞 • (ro>no) (hangeul 로>노)

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Vietnamese

Han character

勞: Hán Nôm readings: lao, lau, lạo, rạo

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