心 xīn
- Strokes
- 4
- Radical
- 心 — heart
- How it's built
- Pictograph — a drawing of the thing
心血
xīnxuè
painstaking effort; hard work
Characters in this word
血 xuè
- Strokes
- 6
- Radical
- 血 — blood
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
Example phrases
- 这部词典凝聚了几代学者的心血，修订过程极其严谨。 Zhè bù cídiǎn níngjù le jǐ dài xuézhě de xīnxuè, xiūdìng guòchéng jíqí yánjǐn. This dictionary embodies the painstaking efforts of several generations of scholars, and its revision process was extremely rigorous.
- 为了写出这本书，作者倾注了两年的心血。 Wèile xiě chū zhè běn shū, zuòzhě qīngzhù le liǎngnián de xīnxuè. To write this book, the author poured in two years of painstaking effort.
- 这座花园凝结着爷爷多年的心血，每棵树都是他亲手种的。 Zhè zuò huāyuán níngjié zhe yéye duōnián de xīnxuè, měi kē shù dōu shì tā qīnshǒu zhòng de. This garden embodies grandfather's years of painstaking work; he planted every tree with his own hands.
Related words
- 放心 fàngxīn to feel at ease; to not worry
- 关心 guānxīn to care about
- 开心 kāixīn happy
- 小心 xiǎoxīn careful
- 心里 xīnli in one's heart; in one's mind
- 心情 xīnqíng mood
- 心中 xīnzhōng in one's heart
- 信心 xìnxīn confidence
- 中心 zhōngxīn center
- 爱心 àixīn kindness; caring love
- 决心 juéxīn determination
- 内心 nèixīn inner heart; inside