苦干

to work hard

bitter / hardship / pain / to suffer / to bring suffering to / painstakingly

old variant of 乾|干[gan1]

variant of 乾|干[gan1]

(bound form) to have to do with; to concern oneself with / one of the ten heavenly stems 天干[tian gan1] / (archaic) shield

tree trunk / main part of sth / to manage / to work / to do / capable / cadre / to kill (slang) / to fuck (vulgar) / (coll.) pissed off / annoyed

dry / dried food / empty; hollow / taken in to nominal kinship; adoptive; foster / futile; in vain / (dialect) rude; blunt / (dialect) to cold-shoulder

to bury oneself in work (idiom); to be engrossed in work / to make an all-out effort / up to the neck in work