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何苦
hé​kǔ HSK7

why bother

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
何苦 hé​kǔ
why bother
Used in a rhetorical question to express that something is not worth the trouble or is unnecessary; why worry or why go through the hardship.

Frequency

Movie subtitles
0.630 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
3.15 per million

Details

HSK 3.0
Level 7

Sources

Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)