吃力 | chī lì | to entail strenuous effort / to toil at a task / strenuous / laborious / strain | |
辛劳 | xīn láo | laborious | |
辛 | xīn | (of taste) hot or pungent / hard / laborious / suffering / eighth in order / eighth of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干[shi2 tian1 gan1] / letter "H" or Roman "VIII" in list "A, B, C", or "I, II, III" etc / ancient Chinese compass point: 285° / octa | |
勚 | yì | (literary) toilsome / laborious / (of an edge etc) worn out / blunt | |
苦心 | kǔ xīn | painstaking effort / to take a lot of trouble / laborious at pains | |
苦功 | kǔ gōng | hard work / laborious effort / painstaking work |