Taiwan Mandarin

DictionaryCommon words傷腦筋

WordTOCFL Level 4stative verb (adj.)Taiwan frequency #13,409

傷腦筋

shāngnǎojīn·ㄕㄤㄋㄠˇ ㄐㄧㄣ

“to be a real headache; to find something troublesome or hard to solve; to rack one's brains.”

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to injure; wound; injury; to damage; to hurt feelings; to be affected by

brain; mind; head; the central part of something; a thing shaped like brain matter.

jīn·ㄐㄧㄣ

Muscle; tendon; a vein visible under the skin; something resembling a tendon or vein, like fiber in a vegetable.