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period of time (may be months, or mere seconds) / spare time / skill / labor / effort
HSK 3
skill / art / kung fu / labor / effort
HSK 3
manpower / labor power
HSK 5
work / toil / physical labor / CL:
HSK 5
to divide up the work / division of labor
HSK 6
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 force / manpower
HSK 7-9
to crystallize / crystallization / crystal / crystalline / (fig.) the fruit (of labor etc)
HSK 7-9
labor union / trade union / CL: 個|个
HSK 7-9
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  *工* | 工* | *工
work / worker / skill / profession / trade / craft / labor
to be carried away by one's wishful thinking (idiom) / to labor under a delusion / wishful thinking
reeducation through 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) / to express one's appreciation (Taiwan pr. [lao4])
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
to induce labor (childbirth)
employment benefits package mandated by labor laws in China, consisting of five insurances (pension, medical, unemployment, work injury, and maternity) and a housing fund
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  *拮* | 拮* | *拮
antagonistic / laboring hard / pressed
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
(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
work / manual labor
labor pains / (fig.) distress caused by a disruptive change
to repay a debt in kind or by labor
labor and capital; workers and capitalists
delivery room (in hospital) / labor ward
to save labor / to save effort
labor / laborer
labor contractor / gangmaster
labor / physical work
abbr. for 勞動改造|劳动改造 / reform through labor / laogai (prison camp)
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  *繇* | 繇* | *繇
folk-song / forced labor
to sell one's labor
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 induce labor / to expedite childbirth
worker's party / labor party
(of an expectant mother) to be in labor
at childbirth / in labor
child labor
the owners of a private enterprise / management / capital (as opposed to labor)
reeducation through labor
time of birth / period of labor / lying-in
to repay a debt in kind or by labor
forced labor / corvee
physical resources (as opposed to labor resources)
forced labor of feudal tenant (corvée) / bailiff of feudal yamen
deferred death sentence / commuted death sentence with forced labor and judicial review after two years (PRC) (legal)
forced labor / corvée (labor required of a serf) / animal labor
hard labor (in penal code) / coolie
forced labor / corvée / penal servitude
fat / grease / riches / fortune / fruits of one's labor
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  *劬* | 劬* | *劬
labor
labor (as opposed to capital or management) / the workers
day labor / piece-time work
to put to work (servant or animal) / to make use of for labor
to assign corvée duties (forced labor)
lit. fat and blood / fruit of one's hard labor / flesh and blood
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  *働* | 働* | *働
(Japanese kokuji) labor; work
to do hard physical labor (as a job) / (fig.) to play mahjong
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  *劦* | 劦* | *劦
variant of 協|协 / to cooperate / combined labor
International Labor Day (May Day)
labor contract / contract between employer and employees governing wages and conditions
to serve as forced labor / to take the rap for sb
to exchange labor / labor exchange (system of sharing workforce resources)
at childbirth / in labor
labor and employer
forced labor (as punishment in criminal case)
people's organization (e.g. labor unions, peasant associations, scholarly associations etc) / mass organization
labor cost
physical labor
industrial relations / relations between labor and capital
May Day / International Labor Day (May 1)
labor insurance
mental labor / intellectual work
partly released from productive labor / partly released from one's regular work
labor conscripted to support the military
Masanjia town in Yuhong District 于洪區|于洪区 in Liaoning, known for its re-education through labor camp
slave labor / slave worker
productive labor
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)
the hammer and sickle (flag of USSR, symbolizing rural and proletarian labor)
to work / to do manual labor
midwife who induces labor
correctional institution / labor camp
one able to do light manual labor only / semi-able-bodied or part time (farm) worker
to harvest the fruits of sb else's labor
Milliband (name) / Ed Milliband, UK labor politician, opposition leader from 2010
May 7 cadre school (farm where urban cadres had to undertake manual labor and study ideology during the Cultural Revolution) (abbr. to 五七幹校|五七干校)
forced labor to repay a debt
magnitude of value / labor value (in economics, the labor inherent in a commodity)
exploiter (of labor)
reeducation through labor / laogai (prison camp)
labor camp / prison camp with hard labor
labor exchanges
labor market
labor committee / abbr. for 勞動委員會|劳动委员会
correctional labor camp
relations between labor and employer / industrial relations
chief labor contractor
Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare (Japan)
Straw (name) / Jack Straw (1946-), UK Labour Party politician, foreign secretary 2001-2006

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