Chinese characters : Query result

Character: 勞

Modern (Beijing) reading: láo

Preclassic Old Chinese: rāw

Classic Old Chinese: rāw

Western Han Chinese: rāw

Eastern Han Chinese: rāw

Early Postclassic Chinese: lāw

Middle Postclassic Chinese: lāw

Late Postclassic Chinese: lāw

Middle Chinese: lâw

English meaning : to toil, tire

Russian meaning[s]: 1) труд, работа; трудиться, работать; 2) тяжелый, утомительный; утруждать(ся), уставать, изнурять(ся); 3) заслуга; [lào] благодарить за труды

Comments: Also read *rāw-s, MC lầw (FQ 郎到) 'to recompense, reward toil'. For *r- cf. Min forms: Xiamen lo², Chaozhou lau², Fuzhou lɔ², Jianou lau⁹.

Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology

Dialectal data: Dialectal data

Radical: 19

Four-angle index: 4741

Karlgren code: 1135 a

Shijing occurrences: 28.3, 32.1_, 32.3, 33.2, 57.3_, 58.5_

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