劳而无功 Save Create a free account to save words Traditional (Taiwan): 勞而無功 láoérwúgōng ㄌㄠˊ ㄦˊ ㄨˊ ㄍㄨㄥ 男 女 to work hard while accomplishing little to toil to no avail Character by character 劳(láo)toil 而(ér)and 无(wú)not to have 功(gōng)work Sign up for a free account to save words and review them A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0