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埋头苦干

mái tóu kǔ gàn

HSK 3.0 level 7-9 4-character word Traditional 埋頭苦幹

埋头苦干 (mái tóu kǔ gàn) means "to bury oneself in work (idiom); to be engrossed in work; to make an all-out effort; up to the neck in work". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 埋头苦干 means

1. to bury oneself in work (idiom); to be engrossed in work
2. to make an all-out effort
3. up to the neck in work

The characters in 埋头苦干

• 埋máito bury
• 头tóuhead; hair style; the top
• 苦kǔbitter; hardship; pain
• 干gāndry; dried food; empty; hollow

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