傷腦筋 [伤脑－]

Jyutping soeng1 nou5 gan1
Pinyin shāng nǎo jīn

Definitions (CC-CEDICT)
  1. to be a real headache
  2. to find sth a real headache
  3. to beat one's brains
Definitions (粵典–words.hk)
  1. 形容詞
    形容​某​啲​嘢​好​棘手​，​令人​好苦惱
    knotty; troublesome; bothersome
    • 呢個問題真係傷腦筋。
      呢个问题真系伤脑筋。
      ni1 go3 man6 tai4 zan1 hai6 soeng1 nou5 gan1.
      That's rather a knotty question.
Definitions (Wiktionary)
  1. adj, informal
    troublesome; pesky; annoying
    (syn.) 歹紡, 囉嗦, 䆀纺, 缠手, 難辦, 䆀办, 纏手, 歹办, 刺手, 棘手, 难办, 䆀辦, 伤脑, 歹辦, 辣手, 傷腦, 䆀紡, 麻煩, 累贅, 麻烦, 费事, 費事, 累赘, 扎手, 歹纺, 啰嗦
Definitions (Kaifangcidian)
  1. （沒有對應漢語詞彙）
Definitions (HSK3.0)
  1. HSK3 七一九级词汇表 #3558
Examples (Tatoeba—Mandarin-English)
  1. Mandarin
    “拜个不够行的师父，很伤脑筋吧？”　“我也很笨，所以没关系。”
    “拜個不夠行的師父，很傷腦筋吧？”　“我也很笨，所以沒關係。”
    “ bài gè bù gòu xíng de shī fu ， hěn shāng nǎo jīn ba ？” “ wǒ yě hěn bèn ， suǒ yǐ méi guān xi 。”
    • "It must bother you to have taken a bad master." "I'm stupid too. So, it's all right."
  2. Mandarin
    真伤脑筋。
    真傷腦筋。
    zhēn shāng nǎo jīn 。
    • It really is a headache.
Examples (粵典–words.hk)
  1. Cantonese
    呢个问题真系伤脑筋。
    呢個問題真係傷腦筋。
    ni1 go3 man6 tai4 zan1 hai6 soeng1 nou5 gan1.
    • That's rather a knotty question.