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skill / art / kung fu / labor / effort
HSK 3
manpower / labor power
HSK 5
period of time (may be months, or mere seconds) / spare time / skill / labor / effort
HSK 3
physical labor
work / toil / physical labor / CL:
HSK 5
to divide up the work / division of labor
HSK 6
physical labor
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  *劳* | 劳* | *劳
(bound form) to toil; labor / (bound form) laborer / (bound form) meritorious deed / (bound form) fatigue / to put sb to the trouble (of doing sth) / (bound form) to express appreciation for sb's efforts (Taiwan pr. [lao4])
abbr. for 勞動改造|劳动改造 / reform through labor / laogai (prison camp)
employment benefits package mandated by labor laws in China, consisting of five insurances (pension, medical, unemployment, work injury, and maternity) and a housing fund
reeducation through labor
labor force / manpower
HSK 7-9
one able to do light manual labor only / semi-able-bodied or part time (farm) worker
day labor / piece-time work
fat / grease / riches / fortune / fruits of one's labor
to crystallize / crystallization / crystal / crystalline / (fig.) the fruit (of labor etc)
HSK 7-9
to get the desired outcome / to win favor by fawning on sb / to curry favor with / a fruitful outcome to reward one's labor
HSK 7-9
labor union; trade union
HSK 7-9
labor (as opposed to capital or management) / the workers
delivery room (in hospital) / labor ward
work / manual labor
to sell one's labor
to induce labor / to expedite childbirth
labor market
forced labor (as punishment in criminal case)
labor pains / (fig.) distress caused by a disruptive change
labor / physical work
forced labor / corvée (labor required of a serf) / animal labor
productive labor
labor cost
to pressure a younger relative to hurry up and have a baby / (obstetrics) to induce labor / to expedite childbirth / (fig.) to be a driving force in bringing sth into existence
labor / able-bodied worker / laborer / work force
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  *役* | 役* | *役
forced labor / corvée / obligatory task / military service / to use as servant / to enserf / servant (old) / war / campaign / battle
to put to work (servant or animal) / to make use of for labor
reeducation through labor
imperial five punishments of feudal China, up to Han times: tattooing characters on the forehead , cutting off the nose , amputation of one or both feet , castration 宮|宫, execution 大辟 / Han dynasty onwards: whipping , beating the legs and buttocks with rough thorns , forced labor , exile or banishment , capital punishment
exploiter (of labor)
time of birth / period of labor / lying-in
correctional labor camp
Straw (name) / Jack Straw (1946-), UK Labour Party politician, foreign secretary 2001-2006
worker's party / labor party
(historical) middle peasant (PRC rural class category referring to a farmer with moderate land and resources who relies mainly on family labor)
labor contractor / gangmaster
to save labor / to save effort
May Day / International Labor Day (May 1)
to do hard physical labor (as a job) / (fig.) to play mahjong
deferred death sentence / commuted death sentence with forced labor and judicial review after two years (PRC) (legal)
labor / laborer
lit. fat and blood / fruit of one's hard labor / flesh and blood
International Labor Day (May Day)
industrial relations / relations between labor and capital
hard labor (in penal code) / coolie
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  *繇* | 繇* | *繇
folk-song / forced labor
the owners of a private enterprise / management / capital (as opposed to labor)
to make a living doing manual labor / to give sth all one's got
to be carried away by one's wishful thinking (idiom) / to labor under a delusion / wishful thinking
labor contract / contract between employer and employees governing wages and conditions
International Labor Organization
at childbirth / in labor
to exchange labor / labor exchange (system of sharing workforce resources)
to devote oneself tirelessly to one's work; to labor diligently over many years
lit. black brick kiln / factories that acquired notoriety in 2007 for slave labor
forced labor to repay a debt
partly released from productive labor / partly released from one's regular work
child labor
to harvest the fruits of sb else's labor
to save labor / to save effort
to work / to do manual labor
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antagonistic / laboring hard / pressed
to burn the candle at both ends (idiom) / to labor under a double burden
chief labor contractor
forced labor / corvée / penal servitude
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  *工* | 工* | *工
work / worker / skill / profession / trade / craft / labor
(of paint etc) to peel off; to flake off / (of an insect or snake etc) to molt / (of skin) to peel off due to hard labor, blistering or sunburn etc / (fig.) to go through a grueling experience
labor and employer
unskilled labor / heavy manual work
labor conscripted to support the military
labor and capital; workers and capitalists
labor insurance
labor camp / prison camp with hard labor
to repay a debt in kind or by labor
midwife who induces labor
magnitude of value / labor value (in economics, the labor inherent in a commodity)
(of an expectant mother) to be in labor
forced labor / corvee
mental labor / intellectual work
May 7 cadre school (farm where urban cadres had to undertake manual labor and study ideology during the Cultural Revolution) (abbr. for 五七幹部學校|五七干部学校)
educated youth; young intellectual / (historical) urban youth with formal education who were sent to rural areas for re-education and labor during the Cultural Revolution (1960s–70s)
to repay a debt in kind or by labor
the hammer and sickle (flag of USSR, symbolizing rural and proletarian labor)
people's organization (e.g. labor unions, peasant associations, scholarly associations etc) / mass organization
Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare (Japan)
labor committee / abbr. for 勞動委員會|劳动委员会
slave labor / slave worker
Masanjia town in Yuhong District 于洪區|于洪区 in Liaoning, known for its re-education through labor camp
physical resources (as opposed to labor resources)
to serve as forced labor / to take the rap for sb
labor exchanges
to assign corvée duties (forced labor)
reeducation through labor / laogai (prison camp)

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