工夫

gōngfu
  1. period of time (may be months, or mere seconds)
  2. spare time
  3. skill
  4. labor
  5. effort

CEDICT

Homographs

工夫 gōngfū (old) laborer

Entry Composition

1 工 gōng
  1. work
  2. worker
  3. skill
  4. profession
  5. trade
  6. craft
  7. labor
=2 夫 fū
  1. husband
  2. man
  3. manual worker
  4. conscripted laborer (old)
=2 夫 fú
  1. (classical) this, that
  2. he, she, they
  3. (exclamatory final particle)
  4. (initial particle, introduces an opinion)