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There are 15 total results for your 工夫 search.

Characters Pronunciation
Romanization
Simple Dictionary Definition

工夫

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gōng fu
    gong1 fu5
kung fu
 koufu / kofu
    こうふ
period of time (may be months, or mere seconds); spare time; skill; labor; effort
(dated) (sensitive word) labourer; laborer; workman
Time, work, a term for meditation; also 功夫.

工夫茶

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gōng fu chá
    gong1 fu5 cha2
kung fu ch`a
    kung fu cha
very concentrated type of tea consumed in Chaozhou, Fujian and Taiwan; variant of 功夫茶[gong1 fu5 cha2]

一工夫

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 hitokufuu / hitokufu
    ひとくふう
(noun/participle) (1) contrivance; bit of fiddling; little ingenuity; (2) bit more (e.g. food)

下工夫

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xià gōng fu
    xia4 gong1 fu5
hsia kung fu
to put in time and energy; to concentrate one's efforts

做工夫

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zuò gōng fu
    zuo4 gong1 fu5
tso kung fu
to practice (work skills)

抓工夫

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zhuā gōng fu
    zhua1 gong1 fu5
chua kung fu
to maximize one's time; to catch some time out; to find enough time; (also 抓功夫)

費工夫


费工夫

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fèi gōng fu
    fei4 gong1 fu5
fei kung fu
to spend a great deal of time and effort; (of a task) demanding; exacting

創意工夫

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 souikufuu / soikufu
    そういくふう
(yoji) ingenuity; inventiveness; creative originality

工夫を凝らす

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 kufuuokorasu / kufuokorasu
    くふうをこらす
(exp,v5s) to exercise one's ingenuity; to come up with an ingenious plan

Variations:
工夫(P)
功夫

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 kufuu / kufu
    くふう
(noun/participle) (1) scheme; device; scheming; devising; figuring out; coming up with; solving ingeniously; (noun/participle) (2) dedication to spiritual improvement (esp. through Zen meditation)

Variations:
一工夫
ひと工夫

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 hitokufuu / hitokufu
    ひとくふう
(noun, transitive verb) a bit of contrivance; some fiddling; a little ingenuity

創意工夫功労者賞

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 souikufuukouroushashou / soikufukoroshasho
    そういくふうこうろうしゃしょう
Prize for Creativity

創意工夫育成功労学校賞

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 souikufuuikuseikourougakkoushou / soikufuikusekorogakkosho
    そういくふういくせいこうろうがっこうしょう
Prize to Schools for Nurturing Creativity

Variations:
工夫(P)
功夫(rK)

see styles
 kufuu / kufu
    くふう
(noun, transitive verb) (1) devising (a way); contriving; inventing; thinking up; figuring out; coming up with; working out; (2) device; design; idea; plan; invention; (noun, transitive verb) (3) dedication to spiritual improvement (esp. through Zen meditation)

踏破鐵鞋無覓處,得來全不費工夫


踏破铁鞋无觅处,得来全不费工夫

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tà pò tiě xié wú mì chù , dé lái quán bù fèi gōng fu
    ta4 po4 tie3 xie2 wu2 mi4 chu4 , de2 lai2 quan2 bu4 fei4 gong1 fu5
t`a p`o t`ieh hsieh wu mi ch`u , te lai ch`üan pu fei kung fu
    ta po tieh hsieh wu mi chu , te lai chüan pu fei kung fu
to travel far and wide looking for something, only to find it easily

Entries with 2nd row of characters: The 2nd row is Simplified Chinese.

This page contains 15 results for "工夫" in Chinese and/or Japanese.



Information about this dictionary:

Apparently, we were the first ones who were crazy enough to think that western people might want a combined Chinese, Japanese, and Buddhist dictionary.

A lot of westerners can't tell the difference between Chinese and Japanese - and there is a reason for that. Chinese characters and even whole words were borrowed by Japan from the Chinese language in the 5th century. Much of the time, if a word or character is used in both languages, it will have the same or a similar meaning. However, this is not always true. Language evolves, and meanings independently change in each language.

Example: The Chinese character 湯 for soup (hot water) has come to mean bath (hot water) in Japanese. They have the same root meaning of "hot water", but a 湯屋 sign on a bathhouse in Japan would lead a Chinese person to think it was a "soup house" or a place to get a bowl of soup. See this: Japanese Bath House

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Chinese Buddhist terms come from Dictionary of Chinese Buddhist Terms by William Edward Soothill and Lewis Hodous. This is commonly referred to as "Soothill's'". It was first published in 1937 (and is now off copyright so we can use it here). Some of these definitions may be misleading, incomplete, or dated, but 95% of it is good information. Every professor who teaches Buddhism or Eastern Religion has a copy of this on their bookshelf. We incorporated these 16,850 entries into our dictionary database ourselves (it was lot of work).



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