心机 (心機) xīnjī
xīnjī
noun
thinking; scheme
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: (CC-CEDICT '心機'; Guoyu '心機'; Mathews 1931 '心機', p. 54)
Contained in
- 枉用心机(枉用心機) a vain intention
- 费尽心机(費盡心機) to rack one's brains for schemes; to beat one's brains out
- 离心机(離心機) centrifuge
- 用尽心机(用盡心機) to tax one's ingenuity
Word is mentioned most frequently in
Truncated for common words
- 第十八回 Chapter 18 Water Margin 水滸傳 — count: 1
- 卷二百〇七 志第一百六十 藝文六 Volume 207 Treatises 160: Arts and Literature 6 History of Song 宋史 — count: 1
- 卷五十九 志第四十九 藝文三 Volume 59 Treatises 55: The Arts 3 New Book of Tang 新唐書 — count: 1
Collocations
- 心机算术 (心機算術) 心機算術括 — New Book of Tang 新唐書, 卷五十九 志第四十九 藝文三 Volume 59 Treatises 55: The Arts 3 — count: 2