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伤脑筋

shāng nǎo jīn

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 7-9 3-character word Traditional 傷腦筋

伤脑筋 (shāng nǎo jīn) means "to be a real headache; to find sth a real headache; to beat one's brains". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 伤脑筋 means

1. to be a real headache
2. to find sth a real headache
3. to beat one's brains

The characters in 伤脑筋

• 伤shāngto injure; injury; wound
• 脑nǎobrain; mind; head
• 筋jīnmuscle; tendon; veins visible under the skin

Example sentences

• 真伤脑筋。
  Zhēn shāngnǎojīn.
  It really is a headache.
• “拜个不够行的师父，很伤脑筋吧？”　“我也很笨，所以没关系。”
  "bài gè bù gòu xíng de shīfu, hěn shāngnǎojīn ba?" "wǒ yě hěn bèn, suǒyǐ méiguānxi."
  "It must bother you to have taken a bad master." "I'm stupid too. So, it's all right."

Where 伤脑筋 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · shàn–shè (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read shāng nǎo jīn correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.