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Chinese Character/Word:
Definition(s) for: 费力不讨好
| Hanzi | Pinyin | Definition(s) |
|---|---|---|
| 费力不讨好 | fèi lì bù tǎo hǎo | - arduous and thankless task (idiom); strenuous and unrewarding |
List Ranking:
Where rank 1 is most common, and higher numbers are less common.
| HSK 2 Level (2012) | HSK 3 Band (2022) | SUBTLEX-CH | BeijingUni Global | BeijingUni Weibo |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| - | - | - | 74,818 | 52,752 |
Individual Character Breakdown:
| Simp | Pinyin | Eng |
|---|---|---|
| 费 | fèi | - surname Fei |
| 费 | fèi | - to cost - to spend - fee - wasteful - expenses |
| 力 | lì | - surname Li |
| 力 | lì | - power - force - strength - ability - strenuously |
| 不 | bù | - no; not so - (bound form) not; un- |
| 讨 | tǎo | - to invite - to provoke - to demand or ask for - to send armed forces to suppress - to denounce or condemn - to marry (a woman) - to discuss or study |
| 好 | hǎo | - good - appropriate; proper - all right! - (before a verb) easy to - (before a verb) good to - (before an adjective for exclamatory effect) so - (verb complement indicating completion) - (of two people) close; on intimate terms - (after a personal pronoun) hello |
| 好 | hào | - to be fond of; to have a tendency to; to be prone to |
Other Words Containing 费力不讨好
Sorted by the 'SUBTLEX-CH' rank because that seems like the most reliable. Words without a SUBTLEX-CH rank are ignored for being too rare.
| Word | HSK 2 Level (2012) | HSK 3 Band (2022) | SUBTLEX-CH | BeijingUni Global | BeijingUni Weibo |
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