钻牛角尖 zuānniújiǎojiān persist futilely Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 钻牛角尖 (鑽牛角尖) zuānniújiǎojiān persist futilely expression to stubbornly focus on an insoluble problem or get caught in a dead-end way of thinking split hairs noun to waste time on insignificant or trivial details or minor points Frequency Movie subtitles 0.720 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 0.858 per million Sources Definitions CC-CEDICT Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
钻牛角尖 (鑽牛角尖) zuānniújiǎojiān persist futilely expression to stubbornly focus on an insoluble problem or get caught in a dead-end way of thinking split hairs noun to waste time on insignificant or trivial details or minor points Frequency Movie subtitles 0.720 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 0.858 per million Sources Definitions CC-CEDICT Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)