下功夫
xià​gōng​fu HSK7

to put in effort

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.

Frequency
Movie subtitles
0.690 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
6.28 per million

Details
HSK 3.0
Level 7

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Sources
Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)