zimai字脈
LookupMandarin · 繁體 · English
Mandarin–English · CC-CEDICTSources ↗
DICTIONARY · CC-CEDICT

搜腸刮肚

简 搜肠刮肚 · 繁 搜腸刮肚
Mandarin · pinyin sōu cháng guā dù

Meanings

  1. to search one's guts and belly (idiom); to racks one's brains for a solution
Full entryShow on map

Characters in this entry

搜
sōu · search, seek; investigate
腸
Look up this written character
刮
guā · shave, pare off, scrape
肚
dù · belly; abdomen; bowels
肠
cháng · intestines; emotions; sausage
Written characters and their own readings; the entry’s pronunciation is shown above.

Explore the spelling

Entries containing 搜腸刮肚 ↗Words written with 搜 ↗Words written with 腸 ↗Words written with 刮 ↗Words written with 肚 ↗Words written with 肠 ↗

Mandarin tones

1–2–1–4 · sou1 chang2 gua1 du4

Compare attested words with these syllables ↗

Dictionary tones. Connected speech can change their realization.

Connected dictionary

4character links
Explore word families ↗Compare pronunciations ↗Open character structure ↗
Counts describe dictionary records, not word frequency or semantic similarity. Source identities stay separate.
Compare dictionary sources 1 Cantonese reading

Rime Cantonese 粵拼

sau2 coeng4 gwaat3 tou5

Cantonese word readings for 搜腸刮肚. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.

CanCLID contributors · CC BY 4.0 · source & license · Data pack

sau2 coeng4 gwaat3 tou5

Pleco · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Word reading; meanings not aligned.

搜腸刮肚 · sou1 chang2 gua1 du4
CC-CEDICT contributors and MDBG · edition 2026-10-13 · source line 48,725
Original dictionary · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source & transformation details
Exact source record搜腸刮肚 搜肠刮肚 [sou1 chang2 gua1 du4] /to search one's guts and belly (idiom); to racks one's brains for a solution/