Effort in Chinese
effort · HSK 4
力气
- 力 force
- 气 air
Counted with 股: 一股力气
他力气很大，一个人就把箱子搬上去了。 He's very strong and carried the box up by himself.
Other ways to say effort
More words with 力 or 气
How do you say effort in Chinese?
Effort in Chinese is 力气 (lì qi). You can also say 努力 (nǔ lì), 功夫 (gōng fu), 工夫 (gōng fu).
Which word should I use?
Start with the first one: it is the easiest on the HSK list. The others say it too, often in a more formal way or for a narrower sense; each one’s page has real sentences that show how it is used.
Where do these words come from?
The CC-CEDICT dictionary’s meanings for the official HSK word list. A word is shown for an English word when that is one of its first meanings; the easiest word whose first meaning it is comes first.
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Meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Chinese often has more than one way to say a word.