伤脑筋 shāngnǎojīn▶ merepotkan

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sakit; melukai
• 受伤Terluka
• 脑袋kepala
• 伤心Sedih
• 电脑komputer

伤脑筋 is pronounced shāngnǎojīn and means “merepotkan”. 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.