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Chinese
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toil
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work; worker; skill work; worker; skill; profession; trade; craft; labour |
| trad. (勞工)
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勞
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工
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| simp. (劳工)
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劳
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工
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Pronunciation 1
Noun
勞工
- laborer; manual worker
- manual work; menial labor
- (historical) person forced to do hard labor
Synonyms
- 作穡人 / 作穑人 (Taiwanese Hokkien)
- 勞動者 / 劳动者 (láodòngzhě)
- 工人 (gōngrén)
- 工仔 (Taiwanese Hokkien)
- 打工人 (dǎgōngrén) (neologism, slang)
- 趁食人 (Hokkien)
Derived terms
Pronunciation 2
Verb
勞工
- (Puxian Min) to hold a sacrificial ceremony and a banquet to reward the craftsmen, relatives and friends (after the main beam is installed in a building)
References
- 莆田市政协文化文史和学习委员会 , editor (2021), “劳工”, in 莆仙方言大词典 [Comprehensive Dictionary of Puxian Dialect] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), Xiamen University Press, →ISBN, page 366.