Entry
  1. Noun

    waste of effort; thankless task

    Usually written using kana alone

    骨折り損のくたびれもうけだった。
    All my effort went for nothing.

Also written 草臥れ儲け【くたびれもうけ】草臥儲【くたびれもうけ】

Pitch on OJAD

Characters in this word

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Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

be profitable, yield profit

Kun
もう.けるもう.かるもうけたくわ.える
On
チョ
Strokes
17
Taught
Jinmeiyō
Frequency
2442 of 2500
Radical
person

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Dictionary and index codes (14)
CodeReference
1-2-15SKIP code
2a16.1The Kanji Dictionary
2426.0, 2426.3Four corner code
5132Unicode hex code
1-44-57JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
565Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
331New Nelson (John Haig)
202Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
157Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
2118Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2252Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1284XMorohashi
chu3, chu2Pinyin reading
jeoKorean reading