努

Glyph origin
– exert one’s strength.

Etymology
From ; cognate with 🇨🇬 < nɔɔr & 🇨🇬 < nuar ~ nɔrʔ ~ nɔrh, & *nuar "get angry".

Definitions

 * 1) to exert; to strive; to make an effort
 * 2) to bulge; to pout
 * 3)  to inure oneself through overexertion
 * 4)  to push something out of the body by contracting abdominal muscles and increasing abdominal pressure
 * 1)  to push something out of the body by contracting abdominal muscles and increasing abdominal pressure

Affix

 * 1) work, toil

Noun

 * 1) the third of the Eight Principles of Yong

Etymology 2
Nominalization of the classical Japanese verb (modern ).