下功夫

xià gōngfu

variant of 下工夫

Watch it being written

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Build with these blocks

Chinese words snap together like bricks. Every word below shares a character with this one, so you are already halfway to knowing it.

See it in sentences

学外语要下功夫。

Learning a foreign language takes effort.

你在哪方面下功夫?

What do you put your effort into?