来之不易 láizhībùyì hard-earned Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 来 來 lái verb to come To come; to arrive; to move toward the speaker; to crop up or happen之 zhī particle [nominalizer] Used between a subject and a verb to turn the phrase into a noun-like unit.不易 bùyì adjectiveadverb not easy difficult; not easy to do something