勞

to toil / labor / laborer / to put sb to trouble (of doing sth) / meritorious deed / to console (Taiwan pr. [lao4] for this sense)

"cover" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 14), occurring in 軍|军[jun1], 冠[guan1] etc, known as 禿寶蓋|秃宝盖[tu1 bao3 gai4] or 平寶蓋|平宝盖[ping2 bao3 gai4]

power / force / strength / ability / strenuously

old variant of 炎[yan2]

contribution / meritorious service / credit

Claus or Klaus (name)

Claude (name)

to get sth done once and for all

Crawford (town in Texas)

work / manual labor

to do sth in place of sb else

to reap without sowing (idiom)

to spare no effort

to work hard without complaint (idiom)

(dialect) nuisance / pain

to wait at one's ease for the exhausted enemy / to nurture one's strength and bide one's time (idiom)

Rudolf Clausius (1822-1888), German physicist and mathematician

(TCM) "five strains and seven impairments", five referring to the five viscera 五臟|五脏[wu3 zang4], and seven to adverse effects on one's body as a result of: overeating (spleen), anger (liver), moisture (kidney), cold (lung), worry (heart), wind and rain (outer appearance) and fear (mind)

undue trouble / Thank you for having gone out of your way to help me.

Kefalonia, Greek Island in the Ionian sea

to bear hardships and work hard (idiom); assiduous and long-suffering / hard-working and capable of overcoming adversity

shrike (family Laniidae)

no pain, no gain (idiom)

shrike