讨好
tǎo​hǎo HSK7

to curry favor

讨好 討好 tǎo//hǎo
to curry favor
To try to please someone or gain their favor by fawning or being servile; to toady or flatter.
to be rewarded with good results
To get a desired outcome or have one's effort rewarded; used mostly in the negative to describe thankless tasks, such as in the phrase 费力不讨好 fèi​lì​bù​tǎo​hǎo.

Frequency
Movie subtitles
5.31 per million appears in 2% of films
Written text
5.64 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 6
HSK 3.0
Level 7

Cross-References

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Sources
Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)