HSK 6 · Adjectives

勤劳 qínláo “hardworking” in Chinese

Traditional 勤勞

What 勤劳 means

  1. hardworking
  2. diligent
  3. industrious

How to say 勤劳

  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale勤qín2nd tone, rising
  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale劳láo2nd tone, rising

勤劳 in a sentence

  1. 他既诚实又勤劳，而他的弟弟正好相反。

    Tā jì chéngshí yòu qínláo, ér tā de dìdi zhènghǎo xiāngfǎn.

    He is honest and hard-working, but his brother is the exact opposite.

    Sentence #464917 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 勤劳的人将获得成功人生。

    Qínláo de rén jiāng huòdé chénggōng rénshēng.

    Hardworking people will succeed in life.

    Sentence #13119411 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

How 勤劳 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 勤 (qín) with each of its parts in a different colour
勤qíndiligent; industrious; hardworking
  • 堇yellow loam · jǐnSound part
  • 力strength · lìMeaning part

力 hints at the meaning (strength); 堇 (jǐn) hints at the sound. Compare it with qín.

The character 劳 (láo) with each of its parts in a different colour
劳láoto toil; labour
  • 艹grass form of 艸 · cǎo
  • 冖cover · mì
  • 力strength · lì

How to write 勤劳

勤 13 strokes · 劳 7 strokes

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勤劳 (qínláo) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 勤劳 (qínláo). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 勤劳

Words with 勤

勤奋qínfèn · hardworking勤俭qínjiǎn · hardworking and thrifty辛勤xīnqín · hardworking后勤hòuqín · logistics

Words with 劳

疲劳píláo · tired劳动láodòng · work劳驾láojià · excuse me操劳cāoláo · to work hard功劳gōngláo · credit

More words: Adjectives

清洁qīngjié · clean清晰qīngxī · clear清醒qīngxǐng · sober勤俭qínjiǎn · hardworking and thrifty亲密qīnmì · intimate亲热qīnrè · affectionate齐全qíquán · complete确切quèqiè · exact

FAQs

勤劳 (qínláo) means “hardworking” or “diligent”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it qínláo: qín with a 2nd tone, then láo with a 2nd tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 勤劳 is written 勤勞. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type qinlao with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 勤劳 from the suggestions. Typing qinlao into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
勤劳 is an HSK 6 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.