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労 kanji
labor, thank for, reward for, toil, trouble
- JLPT level
- N3 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N3 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 7
- School grade
- Grade 4 (elementary school)
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ロウ
Kun readings
ろうするいたわるいたずきねぎらつかれるねぎらう
Variant forms
勞Words with 労
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —出稼ぎ労働者migrant worker; economic nomad
- —日雇い労働者day laborer; day labourer
- —労働災害補償workers' compensation
- —労働者派遣法Act for Securing the Proper Operation of Worker Dispatching Undertakings and Improved Working Conditions for Dispatched Workers
- —厚生労働大臣Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare
- —徒労に終わるto end in vain; to be wasted effort
- —労働集約産業labour intensive industry
- —所定労働時間fixed working hours; prescribed working hours
- —労を惜しまずsparing no trouble; taking pains (to); take the trouble (to)
- —労働者派遣業manpower business; manpower agency
- —非正規労働者non-fulltime worker; non-permanent worker; temp worker; temporary worker
- —非労働力人口working-age people who are unemployed; number of people not in employment
- —労働時間短縮reduction in working hours; shorter working hours
- —過労死ラインkarōshi line (official measure of excessive hours of overtime per month)
- —八時間労働制eight-hour working day system
- —必要労働時間necessary labour time (in Marxian economics)
- —苦労をかけるto cause someone trouble; to burden someone
- —関東労災病院Kanto Rosai Hospital
- —警察労働組合Police Labor Union
- —国際運輸労連International Transport Workers' Federation; ITF