shà fèi kǔ xīn

Traditional: 煞費苦心

煞费苦心 (shà fèi kǔ xīn) is a Chinese word meaning “to take a lot of trouble (idiom); painstaking; at the cost of a lot of effort”.

Meanings

  1. 1to take a lot of trouble (idiom); painstaking
  2. 2at the cost of a lot of effort

Characters in 煞费苦心

煞shā · to terminate费fèi · to cost苦kǔ · bitter心xīn · heart

Related words

担心anxious心heart小心to be careful开心to feel happy关心to be concerned about; to care about痛苦pain中心center; heart; core恶心nausea恶心bad habit恶心variant of 惡心|恶心[e3 xin1]浪费to waste心理psychology; mentality

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