arduous and thankless task (idiom); strenuous and unrewarding
trad. 費力不討好
Also written 費力不討好【fèi lì bù tǎo hǎo】
Characters in this word
5费
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surname Fei
- Pinyin
- Fèi
- Traditional
- 費
- Strokes
- 9
- Frequency
- 3520 of 2500
力
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surname Li
- Pinyin
- Lì
- Strokes
- 2
- Frequency
- 4891 of 2500
不
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no; not so, (bound form) not; un-
- Pinyin
- bù
- Strokes
- 4
- Frequency
- 9 of 2500
讨
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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
- Pinyin
- tǎo
- Traditional
- 討
- Strokes
- 5
- Frequency
- 16727 of 2500
好
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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 form of address) hello
- Pinyin
- hǎo
- Strokes
- 6
- Frequency
- 11 of 2500