liángkǔ
fine and coarse
良苦 liángkǔ
- fine and coarse
- (literary) the difference between what is fine or beautiful and what is coarse or inferior
- painstaking; very hard
- (literary) extremely laborious or painful; painstaking (often used in the phrase 用心 yòngxīn 良苦 liángkǔ to describe well-intentioned efforts)