吃力 Save Sign in to save words On the HSK 5 vocabulary list, at CEFR level C1. chīlì ㄔ ㄌㄧˋ 男 女 to entail strenuous effort to toil at a task strenuous laborious strain Character by character 吃(chī)eat 力(lì)power A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0 国际中文教育中文水平等级标准, 中华人民共和国教育部, MIT