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Our mission is to provide free tools for learning Chinese. This series explores idioms and proverbs, meaningful phrases worth knowing. Today’s idiom: 「費力勞心」.

For this session, we will be discussing the idiom 「費力勞心」. See below for its meaning and practical usage.

It takes effort and thought.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

fèi lì láo xīn

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

fai3 lik6 lou4 sam1

There are a countless number of Chinese idioms, each with unique meanings and applications. We’ve provided these resources to help guide you as you dive deeper into learning Chinese.