做功夫

做

zuò

功

go̅ng

夫

to practice (work skills)

Characters and words in 做功夫

做

zuò = zu + o4

to make; to produce / to write; to compose / to do; to engage in; to hold (a party etc) / (of a person) to be (an intermediary, a good student etc); to become (husband and wife, friends etc) / (of a thing) to serve as; to be used for / to assume (an air or manner)

Add a new mnemonic for 做 = 亻 + 故

做 = 亻 + 故 : In observatory's bathroom, Zapatista Zebra uses the well in the middle of the room as an old tomb and throws a dead Rosa Luxemburg inside to hide her corpse.

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做

zuò

功

go̅ng

to act (in opera) / stage business

功

go̅ng = gu + (e)ng1

meritorious deed or service / achievement / result / service / accomplishment / work (physics)

Add a new mnemonic for 功 = 力 + 工

功 = 力 + 工 : Gitta Giraffe (gu) practices her Kung Fu skills (功) in front of the engine ((e)ng1) with a sparring robot made out of steel beams (工). The robot is programmed to fight Kung Fu (功), but Gitta Giraffe's Kung Fu is better: she hits the robots power button (力) and turns it off.

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功

go̅ng

夫

skill / art / kung fu / labor / effort

夫

fu̅ = fu + Ø1

husband / man / manual worker / conscripted laborer (old)

Add a new mnemonic for 夫 = 一 + 大

Add a new mnemonic for 夫 = 二 + 人

夫 = 二 + 人 : Mnemonic symbol: a construction worker.

In front of the space station (Ø1), Neanderthal Man (人) and a construction worker (夫) are busy exchanging a broken capacitor (二). When Frieda Fox (fu) floats by they whistle at her because they think she's hot, but Frieda is just annoyed.

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