功夫

Pinyin: gōngfu

skill; art; kung fu; labor

Example sentence

他有个很有意思但很费功夫的工作。

Tā yǒu ge hěn yǒu yìsi dàn hěn fèi gōngfu de gōngzuò.

He has an interesting job, for which he has to work a lot.

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What 功夫 means

功夫 (gōngfu) is a Chinese word meaning “skill; art; kung fu; labor”. It appears in the HSK 4 collection.

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Words and levels: HSK Examination Syllabus (2025), Center for Language Education and Cooperation · meanings: CC-CEDICT · example sentences: Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR) · Dictionary-derived data: CC BY-SA 4.0.

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