工夫 gōngfu

  1. gōngfu noun time; spare time
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Time
    Notes: (CC-CEDICT '工夫'; Guoyu '工夫' gōngfu 1)
  2. gōngfu noun time spent in doing something; effort
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
    Notes: (CC-CEDICT '工夫'; Guoyu '工夫' gōngfu 2)
  3. gōngfū noun laborer; corvee
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In the sense of 工程夫役 (CC-CEDICT '工夫'; Guoyu '工夫' gōngfū)
  4. gōngfu noun skill
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
    Notes: In the sense of 本领 (CC-CEDICT '工夫'; Guoyu '工夫' gōngfu 3)

Also contained in

做工夫 、 工夫茶 、 费工夫 、 下工夫 、 踏破铁鞋无觅处，得来全不费工夫 、 抓工夫

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Truncated for common words

  • Scroll 1 Whip for Spurring Students Onward Through the Chan Barrier Checkpoints (Changuan Cejin) 禪關策進 — count: 20
  • Scroll 1 Chan Zong Jue Yi Ji 禪宗決疑集 — count: 18
  • Scroll 26 Quotations from Chan Master Dahui Pujue 大慧普覺禪師語錄 — count: 8
  • Scroll 27 Quotations from Chan Master Dahui Pujue 大慧普覺禪師語錄 — count: 8
  • Scroll 15 Quotations from Chan Master Yuanwu Foguo 圓悟佛果禪師語錄 — count: 6
  • Scroll 29 Quotations from Chan Master Dahui Pujue 大慧普覺禪師語錄 — count: 5
  • Scroll 8 Hong Zhi Chan Shi Guang Lu 宏智禪師廣錄 — count: 5
  • Scroll 4 Hong Zhi Chan Shi Guang Lu 宏智禪師廣錄 — count: 4
  • Scroll 19 Quotations from Chan Master Dahui Pujue 大慧普覺禪師語錄 — count: 3
  • Scroll 21 Supplement to Records of the Transmission of the Lamp 續傳燈錄 — count: 3

Collocations

  • 作工夫 (作工夫) 遣作工夫例與其直 — Zhong Xu Mohe Di Jing 佛本行集經, Scroll 12 — count: 8
  • 用工夫 (用工夫) 用工夫不純 — Quotations from Chan Master Dahui Pujue 大慧普覺禪師語錄, Scroll 25 — count: 6
  • 死工夫 (死工夫) 與伊著死工夫廝崖忽然打破漆桶 — Quotations from Chan Master Dahui Pujue 大慧普覺禪師語錄, Scroll 30 — count: 5
  • 工夫未 (工夫未) 工夫未得力也 — Quotations from Chan Master Dahui Pujue 大慧普覺禪師語錄, Scroll 27 — count: 5
  • 底工夫 (底工夫) 時中無虛棄底工夫 — Quotations from Chan Master Yuanwu Foguo 圓悟佛果禪師語錄, Scroll 15 — count: 4
  • 工夫处 (工夫處) 也至了是亦不立此正是作工夫處 — Quotations from Chan Master Yuanwu Foguo 圓悟佛果禪師語錄, Scroll 15 — count: 4
  • 胜工夫 (勝工夫) 左右做靜勝工夫 — Quotations from Chan Master Dahui Pujue 大慧普覺禪師語錄, Scroll 27 — count: 3
  • 进工夫 (進工夫) 修進工夫 — Lushan Lian Zong Bao Jian 廬山蓮宗寶鑑, Scroll 1 — count: 3
  • 尽工夫 (儘工夫) 直是費盡工夫 — Quotations from Chan Master Yuanwu Foguo 圓悟佛果禪師語錄, Scroll 7 — count: 3
  • 枉费工夫 (枉費工夫) 枉費工夫 — Wan Song Laoren Ping Chang Tian Tong Jue Heshang Song Gu Congrong An Lu 萬松老人評唱天童覺和尚頌古從容庵錄, Scroll 2 — count: 2