没苦硬吃 Save Sign in to save words Traditional (Taiwan): 沒苦硬吃 méikǔyìngchī ㄇㄟˊ ㄎㄨˇ ㄧㄥˋ ㄔ (neologism, attested by 2024) to stubbornly endure hardships that need not be endured to go out of one's way to make things difficult for oneself Character by character 没(méi)not 苦(kǔ)bitter 硬(yìng)hard 吃(chī)eat A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0