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挖空心思
wā​kōng​xīn​si

to rack one's brains

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
  1. 挖 wā verb
    to dig
    to dig; to excavate; to hollow out the ground
  2. 空 kōng adjective
    empty
    empty; hollow; void of content; containing nothing
  3. 心思 xīn​si
    mental effort
    mental energy or capacity for thinking, memory, and consideration; the intellectual effort put into a task