伤脑筋 shāngnǎojīn▶ problemático

Stroke order

伤脑筋 is written in 28 strokes across 3 characters.

• 伤 — 6 strokes
• 脑 — 10 strokes
• 筋 — 12 strokes

Senses

1. to be a real headache
2. to find sth a real headache
3. to beat one's brains

Related words

• 伤害herir, doler
• 受伤Herido
• 脑袋cabeza
• 伤心Triste
• 电脑ordenador

伤脑筋 is pronounced shāngnǎojīn and means “problemático”. You will meet it in HSK 6, a band of the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi — the standard test of Chinese proficiency. Most learners can pick 伤脑筋 out of a list long before they can reach for it unprompted, and the gap between those two closes only with repeated recall. LexiTrail schedules the next sighting from how well you did on the last.