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卖力

mài lì

2-character word Traditional 賣力

What 卖力 means

1. to work hard
2. to do one's very best
3. to throw oneself into the task at hand

The characters in 卖力

• 卖màito sell; to betray; to spare no effort
• 力lìpower; force; strength

Words starting with 卖力

• 卖力气mài lì qito make a living doing manual labor; to give sth all one's got

Sounds the same

Read mài lì, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 麦粒grain of wheat

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