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Chinese Character/Word:

Definition(s) for: 工夫

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
工夫 gōng fū - (old) laborer
工夫 gōng fu - period of time (may be months, or mere seconds)
- spare time
- skill
- labor
- effort

List Ranking:

Where rank 1 is most common, and higher numbers are less common.

HSK 2 Level (2012) HSK 3 Band (2022) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo
6 3 9,726 11,744 17,394

Individual Character Breakdown:

Simp Pinyin Eng
工 gōng- work
- worker
- skill
- profession
- trade
- craft
- labor
夫 fū- husband
- man
- manual worker
- conscripted laborer (old)
夫 fú- (classical) this, that
- he, she, they
- (exclamatory final particle)
- (initial particle, introduces an opinion)

Other Words Containing 工夫

Sorted by the 'SUBTLEX-CH' rank because that seems like the most reliable. Words without a SUBTLEX-CH rank are ignored for being too rare.

Word HSK 2 Level (2012) HSK 3 Band (2022) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo
工夫 6 3 9,726 11,744 17,394
费工夫 - - 35,717 - 94,958
下工夫 - - 44,637 35,138 67,789