労働者

Japanese

Kanji in this term
ろう
Grade: 4
どう
Grade: 4
しゃ
Grade: 3
on’yomi
Alternative spelling
勞働 (kyūjitai)

Etymology

From 労働(ろうどう) (rōdō, manual labor) + (しゃ) (-sha, -er).

Pronunciation

  • (Tokyo) ーどーしゃ [ròódóꜜòshà] (Nakadaka – [3])[1][2]
  • IPA(key): [ɾo̞ːdo̞ːɕa̠]

Noun

(ろう)(どう)(しゃ) • (rōdōsha) らうどうしや (raudousya)?

  1. worker who performs a physically demanding job, manual laborer
    ストは労働者(ろうどうしゃ)権利(けんり)です。
    Suto wa rōdōsha no kenri desu.
    Going on strike is the right of all workers.

Derived terms

References

  1. Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  2. NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK Publishing, →ISBN
  • 2002, Yasuo Kitahara, 明鏡国語辞典 (Meikyō Kokugo Jiten), First Edition (in Japanese), Tokyo: Taishūkan Shoten, →ISBN
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