苦力 kǔlì

  1. kǔlì noun a coolie; an unskilled Chinese laborer
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Spoken Language
    Notes: The English word was borrowed from Chinese in British colonial times
  2. kǔlì noun bitter work; hard toil
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Spoken Language

Also contained in

卖苦力

Word is mentioned most frequently in

Truncated for common words

  • Scroll 1 Si Fen Lu Xingshi Chao Zi Chi Ji 四分律行事鈔資持記 — count: 2
  • Scroll 20 Mahāprajñāpāramitāśāstra (Da Zhi Du Lun) 大智度論 — count: 2 , has English translation
  • Scroll 17 Dasheng Yi Zhang 大乘義章 — count: 1
  • Scroll 1 Mahāyānasūtralāṃkāraśāstra (Dacheng Zhuangyan Jinglun) 大乘莊嚴經論 — count: 1
  • Scroll 29 Supplement to the Biographies of Eminent Monks 續高僧傳 — count: 1
  • Scroll 4 Zi Men Jing Xun 緇門警訓 — count: 1
  • Scroll 2 Hongming Ji (Collection on the Propagation and Clarification of Buddhism) 弘明集 — count: 1 , has English translation
  • Scroll 4 Zhong Xu Mohe Di Jing 佛本行集經 — count: 1
  • Scroll 1 Jing Xin Jie Guan Fa 淨心戒觀法 — count: 1
  • Scroll 20 Fo Ben Xing Ji Jing (Abhiniṣkramaṇasūtra) 佛本行集經 — count: 1

Collocations

  • 苦力多 (苦力多) 苦力多 — Mahāprajñāpāramitāśāstra (Da Zhi Du Lun) 大智度論, Scroll 20 — count: 3
  • 作人苦力 (作人苦力) 作人苦力 — Jing Xin Jie Guan Fa 淨心戒觀法, Scroll 1 — count: 2
  • 苦力行 (苦力行) 苦力行之每至冬登樓 — Si Fen Lu Xingshi Chao Zi Chi Ji 四分律行事鈔資持記, Scroll 1 — count: 2