Illustration: Inside a Japanese produce warehouse, two workers in practical uniforms and gloves lift a heavy vegetable crate onto a wheeled trolley. Their bent knees, firm grips, and focused expressions show sustained physical effort.

JLPT N3nounLevel estimated by Bebop

労ろう働どう

roudou

labor, work

Example sentences

厳きびしい労働ろうどうが彼かれの体からだにこたえ始はじめていた。
Hard labor was beginning to tell on his health.
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彼かれらは奴隷どれいのように労働ろうどうした。
They labored like slaves.
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彼かれは労働ろうどうの報酬ほうしゅうをもらわなかった。
He wasn’t given any reward for his service.
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Kanji in 労働

労labor; thank forOnロウKunろうする・いたわる・いたずき
働work; (kokuji)OnドウKunはたらく

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