功夫

Noun

 * 1) time
 * 2) efforts
 * 3) accomplishments, achievement
 * 4) skill; art; workmanship
 * 5) kung fu
 * 1) accomplishments, achievement
 * 2) skill; art; workmanship
 * 3) kung fu
 * 1) kung fu

Usage notes

 * Originally, kung fu referred to any skill learned through great effort. Used by the Occident to refer to martial arts, kung fu is now used by Chinese to also refer to martial arts, but only since the late twentieth century.

Synonyms






Etymology 1
Borrowing from, from.

Noun

 * 1) kung fu: Chinese martial arts
 * 2)  efforts

Noun

 * : a device, scheme; dedication to spiritual improvement, especially in Zen meditation

Verb

 * : to devise, come up with, contrive