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用功

yòng gōng

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 6 2-character word

用功 (yòng gōng) means "diligent (in study)". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 用功 means

1. diligent
2. industrious (in one's studies)
3. to study hard
4. to make great effort

The characters in 用功

• 用yòngto use; to make use of; to employ; (coverb) with; using; to need…
• 功gōngmeritorious deed or service; achievement; result

Example sentences

• 我总是用功读书。
  I always study hard.
• 她一定很用功读书。
  She must have studied very hard.
• 我决定每天用功读书。
  I decided to study every day.
• 她和其他人一样用功。
  She works as hard as anybody does.
• 他的哥哥很用功读书。
  His brother studies very hard.
• 保罗这几天很用功读书。
  Paul studies very hard these days.

Sounds the same

Read yòng gōng, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 用工to employ workers

Where 用功 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · yíng–yōu (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

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• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read yòng gōng correctly.
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