"Painstaking" • Chinese-English Dictionary
| 细致 | xì zhì | delicate / fine / careful / meticulous / painstaking |   |
| 硬碰硬 | yìng pèng yìng | to meet force with force / painstaking | |
| 煞费苦心 | shà fèi kǔ xīn | to take a lot of trouble (idiom) / painstaking / at the cost of a lot of effort | |
| 整密 | zhěng mì | meticulous / painstaking | |
| 苦心 | kǔ xīn | painstaking effort / to take a lot of trouble / laborious at pains | |
| 惨淡 | cǎn dàn | dark / gloomy / dismal / by painstaking effort | |
| 苦心经营 | kǔ xīn jīng yíng | to build up an enterprise through painstaking efforts | |
| 苦功 | kǔ gōng | hard work / laborious effort / painstaking work | |
| 惨淡经营 | cǎn dàn jīng yíng | to manage by painstaking effort (idiom) | |
| 苦心孤诣 | kǔ xīn gū yì | to make painstaking efforts (idiom) / after much trouble / to work hard at sth | |
| 刻意求工 | kè yì qiú gōng | assiduous and painstaking | |
| 抽丝剥茧 | chōu sī bāo jiǎn | lit. to spin silk from cocoons / fig. to make a painstaking investigation (idiom) | |
| 勤谨 | qín jǐn | diligent and painstaking | |
