用功

用功 in English

yòng gōng verb, adjective HSK 6: diligent / industrious (in one's studies) / to study hard / to make great effort

Character breakdown

用 yòng to use
功 gōng meritorious deed or service

Stroke order

Le caractère 用 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ — Numbered strokes

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 用

Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.

Le caractère 功 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ — Numbered strokes

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 功

Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.

How it used to be written

用

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 19 forms

功

Bronze script 戰國晚期.晉
Clerical script 孫吳
See all 10 forms

Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).

Examples

他后悔在校时没用功读书。

He regrets not having worked harder at school.
保羅這幾天很用功讀書。

Paul studies very hard these days.
她的用功对我们所有人是一个好的榜样。

Her diligence is a good example to us all.
就我所知，他是个很用功的学生。

He is an industrious student to the best of my knowledge.

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