千方百计
qiān fāng bǎi jì
In real, traceable use. Part of the curated seed collection; community review is coming.
Traditional: 千方百計
By every possible means; trying everything you can think of. Used before a verb for determined, sometimes scheming, efforts.
Tìm đủ mọi cách, dùng hết mọi mưu kế để đạt mục đích. Thường đứng trước động từ, chỉ sự cố gắng bằng được.
Register: neutral
Examples
Editorial example (illustrative, not a corpus attestation) — awaiting a native-speaker check
Sources & notes
Hán-Việt bridge batch 061 (2026-11-13). Headword, Traditional form and pinyin checked against CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0) source ↗ · Hán-Việt reading: Unihan kVietnamese source ↗ ; en.wiktionary Vietnamese entries via kaikki.org extract, snapshot 2026-07-31 (CC BY-SA 4.0): Hán-Việt reading 计/計 = kế; etymology of “thiên phương bách kế” = 千方百計 · Vietnamese cognate: Idiomer entry “thiên phương bách kế” (thien-phuong-bach-ke). Definition, literal gloss and example sentence are original; the example has not had a native-speaker check yet.
Equivalents & related
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Common questions
What does “千方百计” mean?
By every possible means; trying everything you can think of. Used before a verb for determined, sometimes scheming, efforts. Literally: a thousand ways, a hundred schemes
Is “千方百计” formal or informal?
千方百计 is generally neutral.