效犬马之劳

to render one's humble services / to be at sb's beck and call

(possessive particle, literary equivalent of 的[de5]) / him / her / it

surname Ma / abbr. for Malaysia 馬來西亞|马来西亚[Ma3 lai2 xi1 ya4]

horse / CL:匹[pi3] / horse or cavalry piece in Chinese chess / knight in Western chess

dog / Kangxi radical 94

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

variant of 傚|效[xiao4]

variant of 效[xiao4] / to imitate

variant of 效[xiao4]

effect / efficacy / to imitate

to imitate (variant of 效[xiao4])

lit. the service of a dog or a horse (idiom) / fig. faithful service