用功 yònggōng▶ Siêng năng

Stroke order

用功 is written in 10 strokes across 2 characters.

• 用 — 5 strokes
• 功 — 5 strokes

Senses

1. diligent
2. industrious (in one's studies)
3. to study hard
4. to make great effort

Related words

• 利用tận dụng
• 功能chức năng
• 实用Thực tế, thiết thực
• 应用ứng dụng
• 用途mục đích
• 运用Ứng dụng; đơn xin

用功 is pronounced yònggōng and means “Siêng năng”. It belongs to the HSK 5 vocabulary, one of the six bands of the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi, China’s official Chinese proficiency exam. Recognising 用功 on a page and producing it in conversation are different skills, and only the second holds up when someone is waiting for an answer — so LexiTrail brings it back just as your memory of it starts to fade, not on a fixed weekly rota.