吃功夫
chī​gōng​fu

to be time-consuming

  • created sense approved 吃功夫 · chī​gōng​fu · to be time-consuming — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    吃功夫

    chī​gōng​fu

    to be time-consuming

    to require a great deal of effort, time, or skill

    chī​gōng​fū

    吃, 功夫

    吃 (literal) → 吃 · chī · to exhaust 功夫 (literal) → 功夫 · gōng​fu · effort

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

    created sense