Chinese symbol for “labor”
劳工
láo gōng
Traditional: 勞工
labor; laborer
The closest CC-CEDICT match for labor is 劳工 (láo gōng), defined as: labor; laborer.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “labor”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 劳力 (勞力) | láo lì | labor; able-bodied worker |
| 活路 | huó lu | labor; physical work |
| 劳 (勞) | láo | (bound form) to toil; labor; (bound form) laborer |
| 働 | xx | (Japanese kokuji) labor; work |
| 劬 | qú | labor |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 劳工.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 劳动 (勞動) | láo dòng | work; toil |
| 劳动力 (勞動力) | láo dòng lì | labor force; manpower |
| 劳动者 (勞動者) | láo dòng zhě | worker; laborer |
| 劳务 (勞務) | láo wù | service (work done for money); services (as in "goods and services") |
| 勤劳 (勤勞) | qín láo | hardworking; industrious; diligent |
| 工作 | gōng zuò | to work; (of a machine) to operate |
| 工业 (工業) | gōng yè | industry |
| 工程 | gōng chéng | engineering; an engineering project |
See also: Japanese symbol for “labor”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.