費盡心機

Chinese

		to cost; to spend; fee to cost; to spend; fee; wasteful; expenses; surname	to use up; to exhaust; to end to use up; to exhaust; to end; to finish; to the utmost; exhausted; finished; to the limit (of something)	scheme; machination; cunning scheme; machination; cunning; patience; devotion
trad. (費盡心機)		費	盡	心機
simp. (费尽心机)		费	尽	心机

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): fèijìnxīnjī

  (Zhuyin): ㄈㄟˋ ㄐㄧㄣˋ ㄒㄧㄣ ㄐㄧ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): fai³ zeon⁶ sam¹ gei¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: fèijìnxīnjī
    • Zhuyin: ㄈㄟˋ ㄐㄧㄣˋ ㄒㄧㄣ ㄐㄧ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: fèijìnsinji
    • Wade–Giles: fei⁴-chin⁴-hsin¹-chi¹
    • Yale: fèi-jìn-syīn-jī
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: feyjinnshinji
    • Palladius: фэйцзиньсиньцзи (fɛjczinʹsinʹczi)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /feɪ̯⁵¹⁻⁵³ t͡ɕin⁵¹ ɕin⁵⁵ t͡ɕi⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: fai³ zeon⁶ sam¹ gei¹
    • Yale: fai jeuhn sām gēi
    • Cantonese Pinyin: fai³ dzoen⁶ sam¹ gei¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: fei³ zên⁶ sem¹ géi¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /fɐi̯³³ t͡sɵn²² sɐm⁵⁵ kei̯⁵⁵/

Idiom

費盡心機

1. rack one's brains; beat one's brains out