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吃力

chī lì

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word

吃力 (chī lì) means "to entail strenuous effort; to toil at a task; strenuous". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 吃力 means

1. to entail strenuous effort
2. to toil at a task
3. strenuous
4. laborious
5. strain

The characters in 吃力

• 吃chīto eat; to consume; to eat at (a cafeteria etc); to eradicate; to destroy
• 力lìpower; force; strength

Words starting with 吃力

• 吃力不讨好chī lì bù tǎo hǎoarduous and thankless task (idiom); strenuous and unrewarding

Where 吃力 is taught

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

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• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
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