吃力不讨好

吃
吃
力
力
不
不
讨
討
好
好
arduous and thankless task (idiom); strenuous and unrewarding

Characters and words in 吃力不讨好

吃
chi̅ = ch + Ø1
to eat / to consume / to eat at (a cafeteria etc) / to eradicate / to destroy / to absorb / to suffer / to stammer (Taiwan pr. for this sense is [ji2])
吃 = 乞 + 口 : Charlie Chaplin and the beggar are floating in front of the space station. Charlie Chaplin is very hungry and begs the beggar to hand over the beggar's mandarin.
吃
喫
chi̅ = ch + Ø1
variant of 吃[chi1]
吃 = 乞 + 口 : Charlie Chaplin and the beggar are floating in front of the space station. Charlie Chaplin is very hungry and begs the beggar to hand over the beggar's mandarin.
吃
力
to entail strenuous effort / to toil at a task / strenuous / laborious / strain
力
lì = li + Ø4
surname Li
力
lì = li + Ø4
power / force / strength / ability / strenuously
力 = ㇆ + 丿 : Mnemonic symbol: a power button.

Li Qingzhao (li) just had a shower in the space station's bathroom (Ø4) and wants to use the hair dryer, but there's no plug, just the bare end of the cable! She uses all her power to build an electricity plug, and for the two pins she uses a plough (㇆) and a banana (丿). Finally she hits a big power button (力) to turn the power on.
不
bù = bu + Ø4
(negative prefix) / not / no
不 = 丆 + 卜 : Bruno Bear (bu) is setting up a wind wheel (丆) with a voodoo staff (卜) in the space station's bathroom (Ø4). He also puts a "forbidden" sign (mnemonic symbol for 不) on it, to make clear that it may not (不) be stopped.
不
bù = bu + Ø4
no; not so / (bound form) not; un-
讨
討
tǎo = t + ao3
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
讨 = 寸 + 讠 : Tecumseh (t) is asking (讨) an advertising column (讠) inside of the aorta (ao3) for a little snack, and indeed, the column ejects some chocolate bars, which causes Tecumseh to thumb up (寸) at it.
讨
討
好
好
to get the desired outcome / to win favor by fawning on sb / to curry favor with / a fruitful outcome to reward one's labor
好
hǎo = h + ao3
good / well / proper / good to / easy to / very / so / (suffix indicating completion or readiness) / (of two people) close / on intimate terms / (after a personal pronoun) hello
好 = 女 + 子 : Hamlet visits the wishing well in the aorta and wishes for a good child. A picosecond later, an egg appears, cracks open and Bessie Coleman jumps out.
好
hào = h + ao4
to be fond of / to have a tendency to / to be prone to
好
hǎo = h + ao3
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 = h + ao4
to be fond of; to have a tendency to; to be prone to

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