费力不讨好 Save Sign in to save words Traditional (Taiwan): 費力不討好 fèilìbùtǎohǎo ㄈㄟˋ ㄌㄧˋ ㄅㄨˋ ㄊㄠˇ ㄏㄠˇ arduous and thankless task (idiom) strenuous and unrewarding Character by character 费(fèi)surname Fei 力(lì)surname Li 不(bù)no 讨(tǎo)invite 好(hǎo)good A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0