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English definition labor, toil, do manual work
Mandarin pronunciation(s), using the Hanyu Pinyin romanization system lao2 lao4
Pronunciation(s) and frequencies according to 現代漢語頻率詞典 <Xiandai Hanyu Pinlu Cidian> (XDHYPLCD) láo(856)
Tang dynasty pronunciation(s), derived from or consistent with T'ang Poetic Vocabulary by Hugh M. Stimson, Far Eastern Publications, Yale Univ. 1976 *lɑu lɑ̀u
Cantonese pronunciation(s), using the Jyutping romanization system lou4
Cantonese pronunciation(s), using the Yale romanization system lou4
Japanese (Kana) ロウ いたわる
Japanese (Hepburn) negirau tsukareru itawaru
Sino-Japanese rou
Korean pronunciation(s), using the Yale romanization system lo
Hangul 노:0 로:0E
Vietnamese pronunciation(s) in Quốc ngữ lao
Simplified variants
Specialized semantic variants (x- or y-variants with similar or identical meaning only in certain contexts)
Unicode radical / stroke count + 10
Unicode total stroke count 12
Cangjie FFBKS
Four corner code 9942.7
Expected to be known in Hong Kong school system primary grade 2
漢語大字典 <Hanyu Da Zidian> 'Great Chinese Character Dictionary' (in 8 Volumes). Hubei and Sichuan Dictionary Publishing Collectives, 1986-1990. ISBN: 7-5403-0030 2/H.16 volume 1, page 376, character 17
KangXi dictionary, 7th edition published by Zhonghua Bookstore in Beijing, 1989 page 148, position 35
Dae Jaweon (Korean) dictionary, first edition, published in Seoul by Samseong Publishing Co., Ltd., 1988 page 335, position 11
Grammata Serica Recensa, Bernhard Karlgren, 1957 1135a
Analytic Dictionary of Chinese and Sino-Japanese, Bernhard Karlgren, New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1974 516
Cihai (辭海) dictionary, single volume edition, published in Hong Kong by the Zhonghua Bookstore, 1983 (reprint of the 1947 edition), ISBN 962-231-005-2 page 198, row 2, position 1
宋本廣韻 <Song Ben Guang Yun> Song Dynasty edition of the Guang Yun Rhyming Dictionary page 155, character 30 page 418, character 5
This represents the position(s) of the ideograph in the Soengmou San Zidin (商務新字典, New Commercial Press Character Dictionary) page 68, character 8 page 398, character 10
The Five Thousand Dictionary (Fenn's Chinese-English Pocket Dictionary) by Courtenay H. Fenn, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1979 449A
page 288, position 8
Ten Thousand Characters: An Analytic Dictionary by G. Hugh Casey, S.J. Hong Kong: Kelley and Walsh, 1980 801 821 1587
Chinese-English Dictionary by Robert H. Mathews, Cambrige: Harvard University Press, 1975 3826
A Practical Cantonese-English Dictionary by Sidney Lau, Hong Kong: The Government Printer, 1977 1928 1929
Roy T. Cowles, A Pocket Dictionary of Cantonese, Hong Kong: University Press, 1999 2408
Student's Cantonese-English Dictionary by Bernard F. Meyer and Theodore F. Wempe (3rd edition, 1947) 1614
常用字字形表 (二零零零年修訂本),香港: 香港教育學院, 2000, ISBN 962-949-040-4 0392
The Modern Reader's Japanese-English Character Dictionary by Andrew Nathaniel Nelson, Rutland, Vermont: Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1974 0731
Taiwan telegraph code 0525
Unicode code point (dec / hex): 21214 / 52DE