工夫
gōng fu 1–5
period of time (may be months, or mere seconds); spare time; skill; labor; effort
- Characters
- 2
- 工 · 夫
- Syllables
- 2
- gōng fu
- Frequency
- Rare
- corpus count 10,723
Part of speech: n
Character by character
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Words with the same characters
These words share at least one character with 工夫. Reading them together is how the character starts to stick — the same characters in a different context.
- 工作gōng zuòHSK 1
to work; (of a machine) to operate; job; work; task
- 丈夫zhàng fuHSK 4
husband
- 员工yuán gōngHSK 3
staff; personnel; employee
- 夫人fū renHSK 4
lady; madam; Mrs.
- 工具gōng jùHSK 3
tool; instrument; utensil; means (to achieve a goal etc)
- 工人gōng rénHSK 1
worker
- 工资gōng zīHSK 3
wages; pay
- 工程gōng chéngHSK 4
engineering; an engineering project; project; undertaking
- 工厂gōng chǎngHSK 3
factory
- 夫妇fū fùHSK 4
a (married) couple; husband and wife
- 工业gōng yèHSK 3
industry
- 夫妻fū qīHSK 4
husband and wife; married couple
- 功夫gōng fuHSK 3
skill; art; kung fu; labor; effort
- 打工dǎ gōngHSK 2
to work a temporary or casual job; (of students) to have a job outside of class time, or during vacation
- 开工kāi gōngHSK 7
to begin work (of a factory or engineering operation); to start a construction job
- 工程师gōng chéng shīHSK 3
engineer
- 人工rén gōngHSK 3
artificial; manpower; manual work
- 工会gōng huìHSK 7
labor union; trade union
- 大夫dà fūHSK 3
senior official (in imperial China)
- 加工jiā gōngHSK 3
to process; processing; working (of machinery)
- 工地gōng dìHSK 7
construction site
- 手工shǒu gōngHSK 4
handwork; manual
- 施工shī gōngHSK 7
construction; to carry out construction or large-scale repairs
- 罢工bà gōngHSK 6
a strike; to go on strike