勾心斗角 Save Sign in to save words Traditional (Taiwan): 勾心鬥角 gōuxīndòujiǎo ㄍㄡ ㄒㄧㄣ ㄉㄡˋ ㄐㄧㄠˇ to fight and scheme against each other (idiom) elaborate and refined in palace construction Character by character 勾(gōu)surname Gou 心(xīn)heart 斗(dòu)fight 角(jiǎo)angle A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0