created sense approved 何苦 · hékǔ · why bother — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"
何苦
hékǔ
why bother
Used in a rhetorical question to express that something is not worth the trouble or is unnecessary; why worry or why go through the hardship.
何 (literal) → 何 · hé · why 苦 (literal) → 苦 · kǔ · hardship
Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition