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苦力

kǔ lì

2-character word

What 苦力 means

1. bitter work
2. hard toil
3. loanwordcoolie, unskilled Chinese laborer in colonial times

The characters in 苦力

• 苦kǔbitter; hardship; pain
• 力lìpower; force; strength

Words containing 苦力

• 卖苦力mài kǔ lìto make a hard living as unskilled laborer

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