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下工夫
xià​gōng​fu

exert effort

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
下工夫 xià​gōng​fu
exert effort verb
to put in time and energy; to concentrate one's efforts

Frequency
Movie subtitles
0.180 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
1.11 per million

Cross-References

Has variant

  • 下功夫 xià​gōng​fu

Sources
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)