冥思苦想
míngsī-kúxiǎng
to rack one's brains
Every meaning
míngsī-kǔxiǎng
- to rack one's brains
Its characters
- 冥míngdark; obscure
- 思sīto think; to consider
- 苦kǔbitter
- 想xiǎngto think
Words with 思
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Meanings from our own dictionary. Chengyu from the Xinhua idiom list, the most common first.