伤 shāng
- Strokes
- 6
- Radical
- 亻 — man, person
伤脑筋
shāngnǎojīn
to be troublesome; to be a headache
Characters in this word
脑 nǎo
- Strokes
- 10
- Radical
- ⺼ — meat, flesh
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
筋 jīn
- Strokes
- 12
- Radical
- ⺮ — bamboo
- Made of
- ⺮ bamboo 肋 ribs
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
Example phrases
- 如何在预算缩水的情况下维持服务质量，确实很伤脑筋。 Rúhé zài yùsuàn suōshuǐ de qíngkuàng xià wéichí fúwù zhìliàng, quèshí hěn shāng nǎojīn. How to maintain service quality while the budget is shrinking is indeed a real headache.
- 这道数学题真伤脑筋，我想了很久。 Zhè dào shùxué tí zhēn shāng nǎojīn, wǒ xiǎngle hěn jiǔ. This math problem is really a headache; I thought about it for a long time.
- 孩子不好好吃饭，真让父母伤脑筋。 Háizi bù hǎohǎo chīfàn, zhēn ràng fùmǔ shāng nǎojīn. The child refuses to eat properly, which really gives the parents a headache.
Related words
- 伤 shāng to injure; injury
- 伤心 shāngxīn sad
- 受伤 shòushāng to get injured
- 伤害 shānghài to hurt; to harm
- 悲伤 bēishāng sad
- 伤口 shāngkǒu wound
- 伤亡 shāngwáng to be injured; casualties
- 伤员 shāngyuán wounded person
- 损伤 sǔnshāng to harm
- 创伤 chuāngshāng trauma; wound
- 救死扶伤 jiùsǐfúshāng to heal the wounded and rescue the dying
- 伤残 shāngcán to be injured and disabled; disability from injury