功夫
Meaning
- skill
- art
- kung fu
Example sentence
我没功夫吃饭。
I had no time to eat.
Characters in 功夫
- 功 gōng merit, achievement; skill, effort
- 夫 fū husband; a grown man
功 merit or skill plus 夫, a man. The skill a man has built, and the martial art takes its name from the effort rather than the fighting.