功
gōng HSK3

achievement

功 gōng
achievement noun
meritorious deed, service, or accomplishment

他在这次任务中立了功。

tā zài zhè cì rèn​wu zhōng lì le gōng.

He performed meritorious service in this mission.

result noun
result, effect, or success

这项工程终于见功了。

zhè xiàng gōng​chéng zhōng​yú jiàn gōng le.

This project has finally begun to show results.

work (physics) noun
work, the product of force and displacement

在物理学中，功的单位是焦耳。

zài wù​lǐ​xué zhōng, gōng de dān​wèi shì jiāo'ěr.

In physics, the unit of work is the joule.

Frequency
Character
Written text
452nd most common 475.7 per million
Movie subtitles
662nd most common 201.8 per million appears in 61% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
7.36 per million appears in 3% of films
Written text
33.8 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 4
HSK 3.0
Level 3
Strokes
5
Unicode
U+529F

Sources
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)