(neologism, attested by 2024) to stubbornly endure hardships that need not be endured; to go out of one's way to make things difficult for oneself
trad. 沒苦硬吃
Also written 沒苦硬吃【méi kǔ yìng chī】
Characters in this word
4没
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0
(negative prefix for verbs) have not; not
- Pinyin
- méi
- Traditional
- 沒
- Strokes
- 7
- Frequency
- 58 of 2500
苦
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bitter, hardship, pain, to suffer, to bring suffering to, painstakingly
- Pinyin
- kǔ
- Strokes
- 8
- Frequency
- 5535 of 2500
硬
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hard; stiff; solid, (fig.) strong; firm, resolutely; uncompromisingly, laboriously; with great difficulty, good (quality); able (person), (of food) filling; substantial
- Pinyin
- yìng
- Strokes
- 12
- Frequency
- 3082 of 2500
吃
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0
to eat; to consume, to eat at (a cafeteria etc), to eradicate; to destroy, to absorb, to suffer (shock, injury, defeat etc)
- Pinyin
- chī
- Strokes
- 6
- Frequency
- 143 of 2500