伤脑筋 shāngnǎojīn▶ ยุ่งยาก, ลำบาก

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เจ็บ, ทำร้าย
• 受伤บาดเจ็บ
• 脑袋หัว
• 伤心เศร้า
• 电脑คอมพิวเตอร์

伤脑筋 is pronounced shāngnǎojīn and means “ยุ่งยาก, ลำบาก”. 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.