埋頭苦幹 Save Sign in to save words Simplified: 埋头苦干 máitóukǔgàn ㄇㄞˊ ㄊㄡˊ ㄎㄨˇ ㄍㄢˋ to bury oneself in work (idiom) to be engrossed in work to make an all-out effort up to the neck in work Character by character 埋(mái)bury 頭(tóu)head 苦(kǔ)bitter 幹(gàn)tree trunk A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0