Read Edit View history 钻牛角尖 zuānniújiǎojiān persist futilely Origin Definitions Defs 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)