精打细算 Save Sign in to save words Traditional (Taiwan): 精打細算 On the HSK 7-9 vocabulary list, at CEFR level C2. jīngdǎxìsuàn ㄐㄧㄥ ㄉㄚˇ ㄒㄧˋ ㄙㄨㄢˋ 男 女 meticulous planning and careful accounting (idiom) Character by character 精(jīng)essence 打(dǎ)a semantically light, transitive verb that is combined with various grammatical objects to form compound verbs and verb-object phrases with a diverse range of meanings 细(xì)thin or slender 算(suàn)calculate 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