徒労

とろう torou

Fruitless effort

Fruitless effort: Korean 도로 (doro) is written with the same characters as Japanese 徒労 (torou), but the Korean word is rare, dated or used differently.

Korean twin · weak cognate

도로

do-ro

  1. 徒とto도do
  2. 労ろうrou로ro

Japanese readingKorean reading of the same character

Same hanja, but the Korean word is rare, dated or used differently. Use it as a memory hook, not a translation.

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