工夫

Pinyin: gōngfu

period of time (may be months, or mere seconds); spare time; skill; labor

Example sentence

没工夫休息的人,早晚会有工夫生病的。

Méi gōngfū xiūxi de rén, zǎowǎn huì yǒu gōngfū shēngbìng de.

People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness.

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What 工夫 means

工夫 (gōngfu) is a Chinese word meaning “period of time (may be months, or mere seconds); spare time; skill; labor”. It appears in the HSK 6 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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