First opened Tuesday, March 4, 2025
労力
ろうりょく
- head-high (atamadaka): falls after mora 1
How to read it: a line over a kana means the voice is high there, and ↓ marks where it drops. A kana with no line is low. With no ↓ the pitch stays high to the end and does not drop even on a following particle (が, は).
labor, effort, trouble
Taken apart
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In a sentence
この仕事は大変な労力を必要とする。
This job involves lots of hard work.
この機械は多くの労力を省いてくれる。
This machine saves us a lot of labor.
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What Wiktionary says
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What the labels mean
- 漢語 Sino-Japanese
- Words built from Chinese-derived morphemes — borrowed from Chinese or coined in Japan out of Chinese parts — read with on'yomi.