費工夫

Chinese

		to cost; to spend; fee to cost; to spend; fee; wasteful; expenses; surname	time and effort taken to perform a task; work
trad. (費工夫)		費	工夫
simp. (费工夫)		费	工夫

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): fèi gōngfu

(Zhuyin): ㄈㄟˋ ㄍㄨㄥ ˙ㄈㄨ
Cantonese (Jyutping): fai³ gung¹ fu¹

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: fèi gōngfu
  - Zhuyin: ㄈㄟˋ ㄍㄨㄥ ˙ㄈㄨ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: fèi gongfů
  - Wade–Giles: fei⁴ kung¹-fu⁵
  - Yale: fèi gūng-fu
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: fey gong.fu
  - Palladius: фэй гунфу (fɛj gunfu)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /feɪ̯⁵¹ kʊŋ⁵⁵ fu²/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: fai³ gung¹ fu¹
  - Yale: fai gūng fū
  - Cantonese Pinyin: fai³ gung¹ fu¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: fei³ gung¹ fu¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /fɐi̯³³ kʊŋ⁵⁵ fuː⁵⁵/

Verb

費工夫

to take time and energy; to be time-consuming; to be exacting; to be demanding

Derived terms

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 (tàpò tiěxié wú mìchù, délái quán bù fèigōngfu)

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