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吃力不討好

arduous and thankless task (idiom); strenuous and unrewarding

Characters and words in 吃力不討好

chī = 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])
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chī = ch + Ø1
to entail strenuous effort / to toil at a task / strenuous / laborious / strain
= li + Ø4
power / force / strength / ability / strenuously
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= bu + Ø4
no; not so / (bound form) not; un-
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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
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to get the desired outcome / to win favor by fawning on sb / to curry favor with / a fruitful outcome to reward one's labor
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
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hào = h + ao4
to be fond of / to have a tendency to / to be prone to
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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
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hào = h + ao4
to be fond of; to have a tendency to; to be prone to
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Words with 吃力不討好

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