Read Edit View history 徒劳无功 túláowúgōng to work to no avail Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 徒劳无功 徒勞無功 túláowúgōng to work to no avail To work in vain; to waste one's effort without achieving any results. Frequency Movie subtitles 0.480 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 0.555 per million Cross-References Antonym 水到渠成 shuǐdàoqúchéngSynonym 枉费心计 wǎngfèixīnjì Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
徒劳无功 徒勞無功 túláowúgōng to work to no avail To work in vain; to waste one's effort without achieving any results. Frequency Movie subtitles 0.480 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 0.555 per million Cross-References Antonym 水到渠成 shuǐdàoqúchéngSynonym 枉费心计 wǎngfèixīnjì Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)