HSK 5 · Body

疲劳 píláo “tired” in Chinese

Traditional 疲勞

What 疲劳 means

  1. tired
  2. fatigued
  3. fatigue
  4. wearily
  5. weariness
More meanings from CC-CEDICT
  • weary

How to say 疲劳

  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale疲pí2nd 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

疲劳 in a sentence

  1. 我的眼睛很容易疲劳。

    Wǒ de yǎnjing hěn róngyì píláo.

    My eyes get tired very easily.

    Sentence #774428 from Tatoeba

  2. 他因为太疲劳而无法继续前进。

    Tā yīnwèi tài píláo ér wúfǎ jìxù qiánjìn.

    He was too tired to go any further.

    Sentence #432907 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 他疲劳过度，又睡眠不足，最后便病倒了。

    Tā píláo guòdù, yòu shuìmián bùzú, zuìhòu biàn bìngdǎo le.

    Worn out from overwork and short of sleep, he finally fell ill.

    Sentence #367844 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

How 疲劳 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 疲 (pí) with each of its parts in a different colour
疲píweary
  • 疒sickness · nèMeaning part
  • 皮skin · píSound part

疒 hints at the meaning (sickness); 皮 (pí) hints at the sound. Compare it with pí.

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 疲劳

疲 10 strokes · 劳 7 strokes

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

Words related to 疲劳

Words with 疲

疲惫píbèi · exhausted疲倦píjuàn · tired

Words with 劳

劳动láodòng · work劳驾láojià · excuse me勤劳qínláo · hardworking操劳cāoláo · to work hard功劳gōngláo · credit

More words: People, Body & Health

流泪liúlèi · to shed tears眉毛méimao · eyebrow脑袋nǎodai · head内科nèikē · internal medicine嗓子sǎngzi · throat身材shēncái · stature失眠shīmián · to suffer from insomnia手术shǒushù · (surgical) operation

FAQs

疲劳 (píláo) means “tired” or “fatigued”. It is an HSK 5 word.
Say it píláo: pí 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, 疲劳 is written 疲勞. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type pilao with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 疲劳 from the suggestions. Typing pilao into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
疲劳 is an HSK 5 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.