勞心

Chinese

		toil	heart; mind
trad. (勞心)		勞	心
simp. (劳心)		劳	心

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): láoxīn

(Zhuyin): ㄌㄠˊ ㄒㄧㄣ
Cantonese (Jyutping): lou⁴ sam¹
Min Nan (POJ): lô-sim

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: láoxīn
  - Zhuyin: ㄌㄠˊ ㄒㄧㄣ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: láosin
  - Wade–Giles: lao²-hsin¹
  - Yale: láu-syīn
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: laushin
  - Palladius: лаосинь (laosinʹ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /lɑʊ̯³⁵ ɕin⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: lou⁴ sam¹
  - Yale: lòuh sām
  - Cantonese Pinyin: lou⁴ sam¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: lou⁴ sem¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /lou̯²¹ sɐm⁵⁵/
Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: lô-sim
  - Tâi-lô: lô-sim
  - Phofsit Daibuun: loisym
  - IPA (Xiamen): /lo²⁴⁻²² ɕim⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /lo²⁴⁻²² ɕim³³/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /lo¹³⁻²² ɕim⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Taipei): /lo²⁴⁻¹¹ ɕim⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /lɤ²³⁻³³ ɕim⁴⁴/

Verb

勞心

(literary) to labor with one's mind; to use one's brain to work
to be worried; to be concerned

Antonyms

(to labor with one's mind): 勞力／劳力 (láolì)

Derived terms

事不關己，己不勞心／事不关己，己不劳心 (shìbùguānjǐ, jǐbùláoxīn)

勞心者治人，勞力者治於人／劳心者治人，劳力者治于人 (láoxīnzhězhìrén, láolìzhězhìyúrén)

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