liáng​kǔ

fine and coarse

Senses

良苦 liáng​kǔ fine and coarse

(literary) the difference between what is fine or beautiful and what is coarse or inferior

良苦 liáng​kǔ painstaking; very hard

(literary) extremely laborious or painful; painstaking (often used in the phrase 用心 yòng​xīn 良苦 liáng​kǔ to describe well-intentioned efforts)

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