煞费苦心 Save Sign in to save words Traditional (Taiwan): 煞費苦心 shàfèikǔxīn ㄕㄚˋ ㄈㄟˋ ㄎㄨˇ ㄒㄧㄣ to take a lot of trouble (idiom) painstaking at the cost of a lot of effort Character by character 煞(shà)fiend 费(fèi)surname Fei 苦(kǔ)bitter 心(xīn)heart A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0