to exert

to strive

slave sound (奴) + force (力) = to exert and strive

力 is the semantic heart here, representing muscular effort and physical force. 奴 mainly lends the sound nú; the force radical is what turns striving into the meaning.

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你要力学习,才能取得好成绩。

nǐ yào nǔ lì xué xí,cái néng qǔ dé hǎo chéng jì。

You need to work hard at studying in order to get good grades.

他一直力工作,希望有一天能实现自己的梦想。

tā yī zhí nǔ lì gōng zuò,xī wàng yǒu yī tiān néng shí xiàn zì jǐ de mèng xiǎng。

He has always strived hard at work, hoping that one day he can realize his own dream.

Words with 努

阿伊努

ā yī nǔ

Ainu (ethnic group of Japan's north and Russia's east)

亚努科维奇

yà nǔ kē wéi qí

Viktor Feyedov Yanukovych (1950-) Ukrainian politician

加大努力

jiā dà nǔ lì

to try harder

努嘴儿

nǔ zuǐ r

erhua variant of 努嘴[nu3 zui3]

努克

nǔ kè

Nuuk, capital of Greenland

努出

nǔ chū

to extend

努力

nǔ lì

to make an effort; to try hard; to strive

努力以赴

nǔ lì yǐ fù

to use one's best efforts to do sth (idiom)

努劲儿

nǔ jìn r

to extend

努嘴

nǔ zuǐ

to pout

努库阿洛法

nǔ kù ā luò fǎ

Nuku'alofa, capital of Tonga

努比亚

nǔ bǐ yà

Nubia

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