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煞费苦心
shà​fèi​kǔ​xīn

painstaking

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
煞费苦心 (煞費苦心) shà​fèi​kǔ​xīn
painstaking idiom
to take a lot of trouble; at the cost of a lot of effort or mental energy

Frequency

Movie subtitles
0.360 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
0.965 per million

Sources

Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)