下功夫

xià gōng fu

verbHSK 6

put effort into

Character Breakdown

xià

down

Radical: Strokes: 3
ground
magic stick

gōng

merit, achievement

Radical: Strokes: 5
cross-beam
muscular arm

husband, man

Radical: Strokes: 4
two
person

Example Sentences

学外语要下功夫。

Xué wàiyǔ yào xià gōngfu.

Learning a foreign language requires effort.

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