死工夫
sǐ​gōng​fu

painstaking effort; sheer hard work

  • created sense approved 死工夫 · sǐ​gōng​fu · painstaking effort; sheer hard work — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    死工夫

    sǐ​gōng​fu

    painstaking effort; sheer hard work

    Unflagging, painstaking work; intense effort applied to a task, sometimes implying a plodding or mechanical approach

    死 (literal) → 死 · sǐ · desperately 工夫 (literal) → 工夫 · gōng​fu · effort

    Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition

    created sense