to search one's guts and belly (idiom); to racks one's brains for a solution
trad. 搜腸刮肚
Also written 搜腸刮肚【sōu cháng guā dù】
Characters in this word
4搜
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to search, variant of 蒐|搜[sou1]
- Pinyin
- sōu
- Strokes
- 12
- Frequency
- 4537 of 2500
肠
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intestines
- Pinyin
- cháng
- Traditional
- 腸
- Strokes
- 7
- Frequency
- 34391 of 2500
刮
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to scrape, to blow, to shave, to plunder, to extort
- Pinyin
- guā
- Strokes
- 8
- Frequency
- 5919 of 2500
肚
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tripe
- Pinyin
- dǔ
- Strokes
- 7
- Frequency
- 18707 of 2500