苦心 kǔxīn
kǔxīn
noun
painstaking effort; to take a lot of trouble; laborious at pains
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (CC-CEDICT '苦心')
Contained in
- 苦心经营(苦心經營) to build up an enterprise through painstaking efforts
- 煞费苦心(煞費苦心) to make a painstaking effort
- 苦心孤诣(苦心孤詣) to make painstaking efforts; after much trouble; to work hard at sth
- 皇天不负苦心人(皇天不負苦心人) Heaven will not disappoint the person who tries . If you try hard, you're bound to succeed eventually.
Word is mentioned most frequently in
Truncated for common words
- 卷二十八 Scroll 28 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 4
- 卷二十四 Scroll 24 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 2
- 卷三十一 Scroll 31 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 2
- 卷五十九 Scroll 59 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 2
- 卷六十八 唐書44: 列傳20 薛廷珪 崔沂 劉岳 封舜卿 竇夢徵 李保殷 歸藹 孔邈 張文寶 陳乂 劉贊 Volume 68 Book of Later Tang 44: Biographies 20 - Xue Tinggui, Cui Yi, Liu Yue, Liu Ye, Feng Shunqing, Dou Mengzheng, Li Baoyin, Gui Ai, Kong, Miao, Zhang Wenbao, Chen Yi, Liu Zan Old History of the Five Dynasties 舊五代史 — count: 2
- 卷二十三 Scroll 23 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 2
- 卷之五 賦辭 Scroll 5: Fu Poems Tao Yuanming Collected Poems 陶淵明集 — count: 2
- 第二回 Chapter 48 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 2
- 卷二百二十一 列傳第一百〇九 袁洪愈 王廷瞻 郭應聘 耿定向 王樵 魏時亮 郝杰 趙參魯 張孟男 李禎 丁賓 Volume 221 Biographies 109: Yuan Hongyu, Wang Tingzhan, Guo Yingpin, Geng Dingxiang, Wang Qiao, Wei Shiliang, Hao Jie, Zhao Canlu, Zhang Mengnan, Li Zhen, Ding Bin History of Ming 明史 — count: 2
- 卷十四 詮言訓 Chapter 14: Explanation of Sayings Huainanzi 淮南子 — count: 1
Collocations
- 怀苦心 (懷苦心) 晨風懷苦心 — Wenxuan 文選, 卷二十三 Scroll 23 — count: 5
- 多苦心 (多苦心) 君子多苦心 — Book of Song 宋書, 卷二十一 志第十一 樂三 Volume 21 Treatises 11: Music 3 — count: 5
- 苦心劳 (苦心勞) 則苦心勞形 — Huainanzi 淮南子, 卷十二 道應訓 Chapter 12: Responses of the Way — count: 3
- 苦心劳力 (苦心勞力) 夫秦日夜苦心勞力以除六國之禍 — Book of Han 漢書, 卷四十八 賈誼傳 Volume 48: Jia Yi — count: 3
- 苦心痛 (苦心痛) 復苦心痛 — Book of Song 宋書, 卷六十二 列傳第二十二 羊欣 張敷 王微 Volume 62 Biographies 22: Yang Xin, Zhang Fu, Wang Wei — count: 3
- 苦心力学 (苦心力學) 苦心力學 — Old Book of Tang 舊唐書, 卷一百七十四 列傳第一百二十四: 李德裕 Volume 174 Biographies 124: Li Deyu — count: 3
- 苦心焦思 (苦心焦思) 乃苦心焦思 — Book of Zhou 周書, 卷6 帝紀第6 武帝下 Volume 6 Annals 6: Emperor Wu 2 — count: 2
- 苦心文艺 (苦心文藝) 當苦心文藝 — Old History of the Five Dynasties 舊五代史, 卷六十八 唐書44: 列傳20 薛廷珪 崔沂 劉岳 封舜卿 竇夢徵 李保殷 歸藹 孔邈 張文寶 陳乂 劉贊 Volume 68 Book of Later Tang 44: Biographies 20 - Xue Tinggui, Cui Yi, Liu Yue, Liu Ye, Feng Shunqing, Dou Mengzheng, Li Baoyin, Gui Ai, Kong, Miao, Zhang Wenbao, Chen Yi, Liu Zan — count: 2
- 少苦心 (少苦心) 少苦心為學 — Old Book of Tang 舊唐書, 卷一百二十三 列傳第七十三: 劉晏 第五琦 班宏 班紹 李巽 Volume 123 Biographies 73: Liu Yan, Di Wuqi, Ban Hong, Ban Shao, Li Xun — count: 2
- 日夜苦心 (日夜苦心) 夫秦日夜苦心勞力以除六國之禍 — Book of Han 漢書, 卷四十八 賈誼傳 Volume 48: Jia Yi — count: 2