| 劳动 | láo dòng | work / toil / physical labor / CL:次[ci4] |   |
| 劳累 | láo lèi | tired / exhausted / worn out / to toil | |
| 劳苦 | láo kǔ | to toil / hard work | |
| 劳碌 | láo lù | to work hard / to toil | |
| 劳 |  láo | (bound form) to toil / labor / (bound form) laborer / (bound form) meritorious deed / (bound form) fatigue / to put sb to the trouble (of doing sth) / to express one's appreciation (Taiwan pr. [lao4]) | |
| 矻 | kù | to toil | |
| 苦劳 | kǔ láo | toil / hard work | |
| 勩 | yì | toil | |
| 吃力 | chī lì | to entail strenuous effort / to toil at a task / strenuous / laborious / strain | |
| 苦力 | kǔ lì | bitter work / hard toil / (loanword) coolie, unskilled Chinese laborer in colonial times | |
| 血汗 | xuè hàn | (fig.) sweat and toil / hard work | |
| 披星戴月 | pī xīng dài yuè | to travel or work through night and day / to toil away for long hours | |
| 压线 | yā xiàn | pressure crease / fig. to toil for sb else's benefit / line ball (i.e. on the line) | |
| 劳而无功 | láo ér wú gōng | to work hard while accomplishing little / to toil to no avail | |
| 卜昼卜夜 | bǔ zhòu bǔ yè | day and night (to toil, to abandon oneself to pleasure etc) | |
| 炼丹八卦炉 | liàn dān bā guà lú | eight trigrams furnace to cook pills of immortality / symbol of the alchemist's art / Double, double toil and trouble, Fire burn, and cauldron bubble | |
| 当牛作马 | dāng niú zuò mǎ | to work like a horse and toil like an ox / fig. to slave for sb | |
