功夫

功夫 gōngfu in a sentence

kung fu; skill; art; labor

Full dictionary entry HSK 4 2 sentences

功夫 (gōngfu) means kung fu, skill, art. Below are 2 sentences on this site that use it — with pinyin, an English translation and audio. All of them were written by hand; none is machine generated.

Dictionary examples

他从小就学 功夫

Tā cóng xiǎo jiù xué gōngfu.

He has studied kung fu since he was small.

Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 功夫

学好汉语要下 功夫

Xué hǎo Hànyǔ yào xià gōngfu.

Learning Chinese well takes real effort.

Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 功夫

Questions about 功夫

How is 功夫 used in a sentence?

This page shows 2 sentences using 功夫 (gōngfu, "kung fu, skill, art, labor"), each with pinyin, an English translation and audio. Every one of them was written by hand for this site.

Are these sentences machine generated?

No. They come from the site's own dictionary examples, graded readers, travel phrasebook and grammar library — all written by a person. A word with no sentence gets no page here, rather than a page of invented ones.

Is 功夫 an HSK word?

Yes — 功夫 is on the official HSK 4 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 4 page.

Where can I see the full entry for 功夫?

The dictionary page for 功夫 has its stroke order, its traditional form, every sense the dictionary lists and a character-by-character breakdown. It is linked at the top of this page.

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