- to get the desired outcome
- to win favor by fawning on sb
- to curry favor with
- a fruitful outcome to reward one's labor
Characters
- 讨 (討): to invite; to provoke; to demand or ask for; to send armed forces to suppress; to denounce or condemn; to marry (a woman); to discuss or study
- 好 (好): good; appropriate; proper; all right!; (before a verb) easy to; (before a verb) good to; (before an adjective for exclamatory effect) so; (verb complement indicating completion); (of two people) close; on intimate terms; (after a personal pronoun) hello
Resources
- Wiktionary: 讨好
- MDBG: 讨好
- Examples with 讨好 on Tatoeba
Examples
那人很會討好老闆。
他竭尽全力地讨好他老婆。