Read Edit View history 煞费苦心 shàfèikǔxīn to take great pains Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 煞费苦心 煞費苦心 shàfèikǔxīn to take great pains to take a lot of trouble; to put in a lot of effort; to rack one's brains to accomplish something Frequency Movie subtitles 0.360 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 0.965 per million Cross-References Synonym 挖空心思 wākōngxīnsi呕心沥血 ǒuxīnlìxuè Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
煞费苦心 煞費苦心 shàfèikǔxīn to take great pains to take a lot of trouble; to put in a lot of effort; to rack one's brains to accomplish something Frequency Movie subtitles 0.360 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 0.965 per million Cross-References Synonym 挖空心思 wākōngxīnsi呕心沥血 ǒuxīnlìxuè Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)