cu li
Pronunciation
Northern
/ku˧˧ li˧˧/
Central
/ku˧˥ li˧˥/
Southern
/ku˧˧ li˧˧/
Listen
coolie; manual laborer
Noun
coolie; manual laborer
3 senses
2 Components
Meaning
3 senses
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Meaning
3 senses
Sense 1
Noun
coolie; manual laborer
Discourse & Logic
An older term for an unskilled manual laborer, typically one from Asia.
vi Họ từng làm công việc cu li để kiếm sống.
en They used to work as manual laborers to make a living.
Sense 2
Noun
wage slave
A person whose livelihood depends on wages, often used to describe difficult or low-status work.
vi Anh ấy cảm thấy mình như một tên cu li cho công ty.
en He feels like a wage slave for the company.
Sense 3
Noun
loris
A type of small, slow-moving primate found in parts of Southeast Asia and India.
vi Con cu li đang bám chặt trên cành cây.
en The loris is clinging tightly to the tree branch.
Parts
cu / li / 鴝離
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Parts
cu / li / 鴝離
Chinese characters
Estimated from syllable mapping
Representative candidate
鴝離
Candidates by syllable
cu
鴝
li
離（璃 / 厘 / 氂）
Bold marks a representative candidate assembled from per-syllable character mappings. Parentheses show other candidates for the same syllable. It is not necessarily a source-aligned spelling for the whole word.
Similar
coolie
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Similar
coolie