吃力不討好 Save Sign in to save words Simplified: 吃力不讨好 chīlìbùtǎohǎo ㄔ ㄌㄧˋ ㄅㄨˋ ㄊㄠˇ ㄏㄠˇ arduous and thankless task (idiom) strenuous and unrewarding Character by character 吃(chī)eat 力(lì)surname Li 不(bù)no 討(tǎo)invite 好(hǎo)good A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0