功gung1夫fu1

English

1. skill
2. art
3. kung fu
4. labor
5. effort
6. martial art; kung fuunreviewed?
7. skill; techniqueunreviewed?
8. painstaking effort, attention, energy, timeunreviewed?
9. timeunreviewed?

粵語 — Cantonese

1. 武術；打鬥嘅技巧unreviewed?
2. 技巧unreviewed?
3. 心血、心思、精力、時間unreviewed?
4. 時間unreviewed?

Examples

• 我沒功夫吃飯。

  I had no time to eat.

  Tatoeba · DaoSeng CC BY

• 眨个眼的功夫，贡特就不见了。

  In a wink, Gunter was gone.

  Tatoeba · jan_OkulaJu CC BY

• 他有个很有意思但很费功夫的工作。

  He has an interesting job but it requires a lot of skill.

  Tatoeba · fucongcong CC BY

• 我想解決這個問題，可是白費功夫。

  I tried in vain to deal with the problem.

  Tatoeba · GlossaMatik CC BY

• 消防员一眨眼的功夫就把火给灭了。

  The firefighters put out the fire in the blink of an eye.

  Tatoeba · DaoSeng CC BY

• 挺好，挺好，下一次再花点儿功夫就成功了。

  Good, good, next time use a bit more effort and you'll succeed.

  Tatoeba · U2FS CC BY

• unreviewed?

  一盞茶嘅功夫

  the time to drink a cup of tea (around 10-15 minutes)

• unreviewed?

  一炷香嘅功夫

  the time to burn an incense (around 30 minutes)