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下工夫

xià gōng fu

3-character word

What 下工夫 means

1. to put in time and energy
2. to concentrate one's efforts

The characters in 下工夫

• 下xiàdown; downwards; below
• 工gōngwork; worker; skill
• 夫fūhusband; man; manual worker

Sounds the same

Read xià gōng fu, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 下功夫variant of 下工夫

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