


刿鉥心腑 is a Chinese idiom (chengyu) meaning “to ponder deeply and meticulously”. To rack one's brains and make painstaking efforts in thinking or creating. Literally, “To carve and pierce the heart and viscera”.

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Open the tool →刿鉥心腑 (guì shù xīn fǔ) is a Chinese idiom (chengyu) meaning “to ponder deeply and meticulously”.
刿鉥心腑 is pronounced guì shù xīn fǔ in Mandarin Chinese.
Literally, 刿鉥心腑 means “to carve and pierce the heart and viscera”. It is used to mean “to ponder deeply and meticulously”.
形容穷思苦索,刻意为之。