下功夫
xià​gōng​fu HSK7

to put in effort

  • created reference approved 下功夫 → 下工夫 (variant) — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    下功夫 xià​gōng​fu

    下工夫 xià​gōng​fu

    variant

    Changed: source (simp), source (trad), source pinyin, target (simp), target (trad), target pinyin, type

    created reference

  • created sense approved 下功夫 · xià​gōng​fu · to put in effort — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    下功夫

    xià​gōng​fu

    to put in effort

    To spend a significant amount of time and energy to achieve a goal or complete a task; to work hard at something.

    xià​gōng​fū

    下, 功夫

    下 (literal) → 下 · xià · to put in 功夫 (literal) → 功夫 · gōng​fu · effort

    Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition

    created sense