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- to render meritorious service (one the three imperishables 三不朽[san1 bu4 xiu3])
- to make worthy contributions
- to distinguish oneself
Trad. 請功
- to request recognition for sb's merits
- to recommend sb for promotion or an award
- Chenggong or Chengkung town in Taitung County 臺東縣|台东县[Tai2 dong1 Xian4], southeast Taiwan
Trad. 功勳
- meritorious service; distinguished contribution; achievement of great merit
Trad. 練功
- to do tai chi
- to practice kung-fu (or other martial art)
- to train (for dancing, acrobatics etc)
- meritorious official
- person who renders exceptional service; hero
- (fig.) sth that plays a vital role
Trad. 輕功
- (Chinese martial arts) the art of agile movement such as leaping, wall-running or gliding through the air (exaggerated in wuxia stories)
Trad. 氣功
- qigong, a traditional Chinese system of cultivating vital energy 氣|气[qi4] through coordinated breathing, movement and meditation
- diligent
- industrious (in one's studies)
- to study hard
- to make great effort
Trad. 成功鎮
- Chenggong or Chengkung town in Taitung County 臺東縣|台东县[Tai2 dong1 Xian4], southeast Taiwan
Trad. 法輪功
- Falun Gong (Chinese spiritual movement founded in 1992, regarded as a cult by the PRC government)
Trad. 功勞簿
- record of achievements; (fig.) laurels (as sth one rests on)
- very concentrated type of tea drunk in Chaozhou, Fujian and Taiwan
Trad. 武功縣
- Wugong County in Xianyang 咸陽|咸阳[Xian2 yang2], Shaanxi
- to maximize one's time
- to catch some time out
- to find enough time
- (also 抓工夫)
- political and military achievements (idiom)
Trad. 勞而無功
- to work hard while accomplishing little
- to toil to no avail
Trad. 開國功臣
- outstanding founding minister (title given to reward loyal general or vassal of new dynasty or state)
Trad. 無功受祿
- to get undeserved rewards (idiom)
Trad. 無功而返
- to return without any achievement (idiom); to go home with one's tail between one's legs
Trad. 一舉成功
- success at one go
- to succeed at the first attempt
- boasts a lot, but nothing comes of it (idiom)
Trad. 特異功能
- supernatural power
- extrasensory perception
Trad. 將功折罪
- see 將功贖罪|将功赎罪[jiang1 gong1 shu2 zui4]
Trad. 將功補過
- to make up for one's faults by doing good deeds (idiom)
Trad. 將功贖罪
- to atone for one's crimes by meritorious acts
Trad. 成功大學
- National Cheng Kung University (NCKU), a public research university in Tainan, Taiwan
Trad. 敘功行賞
- to review records and decide on rewards (idiom)
Trad. 貪天之功
- to claim credit for other people's achievements (idiom)
- successfully accomplished (project or goal)
- to be highly successful
Trad. 功不可沒
- one's contributions cannot go unnoticed (idiom)
- to rejoice in grandiose deeds
- to strive to achieve extraordinary things
Trad. 功名利祿
- position and wealth (idiom); rank, fame and fortune
- Chinese translation of "kung flu", a term used by US President Trump in 2020 to refer to COVID-19 as a "Chinese" disease
Trad. 功完行滿
- to fully achieve one's ambitions (idiom)
Trad. 功德圓滿
- virtuous achievements come to their successful conclusion (idiom)
Trad. 功德無量
- no end of virtuous achievements (idiom); boundless beneficence
- not to claim personal credit for achievement (idiom)
Trad. 功敗垂成
- to fail within sight of success (idiom); last-minute failure
- to fall at the last hurdle
- snatching defeat from the jaws of victory
- satisfied with one's accomplishment and arrogant as a result (idiom); resting on one's laurels and despising others
Trad. 居功至偉
- see 厥功至偉|厥功至伟[jue2 gong1 zhi4 wei3]
- seeking instant benefit (idiom); shortsighted vision, looking only for fast return
- no greater contribution has been made than this (idiom)
Trad. 功虧一簣
- lit. to ruin the enterprise for the sake of one basketful
- to fail through lack of a final effort
- to spoil the ship for a ha'penny worth of tar (idiom)
Trad. 功高不賞
- high merit that one can never repay (idiom); invaluable achievements
- to constrain and limit successful, capable people
Trad. 功高蓋主
- lit. one's accomplishments overshadow the authority of the sovereign (idiom)
- fig. to be so influential that one rivals one's leader
- multifunction meter (e.g. for gas and electricity supply)
Trad. 厥功至偉
- (idiom) to have made significant contributions to a project or cause
Trad. 前功盡棄
- to waste all one's previous efforts (idiom)
- all that has been achieved goes down the drain
- increase in salary according to one's service record for the year (idiom)
Trad. 汗馬功勞
- war exploits
- (fig.) heroic contribution
- (idiom) to expend twice the effort for half the result
Trad. 歌功頌德
- to sing sb's praises (mostly derogatory)
- (idiom) to achieve twice the result with half the effort
Trad. 無功不受祿
- Don't get a reward if it's not deserved. (idiom)
- effort will undoubtedly lead to success (idiom)
- lit. cannot be done in one day (idiom)
- fig. will take much time and effort to accomplish
Trad. 峰值輸出功能
- peak power output (of an electrical device etc)
- to succeed or die trying (idiom)
Trad. 畢其功於一役
- to accomplish the whole task at one stroke (idiom)
Trad. 勃起功能障礙
- erectile dysfunction (ED)
Trad. 失敗是成功之母
- Failure is the mother of success.
Trad. 甲狀腺功能亢進
- hyperthyroidism
- abbr. to 甲亢[jia3 kang4]
- functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI)
Trad. 功能磁共振成像術
- functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI)
Trad. 不求有功，但求無過
- lit. not aiming to achieve the best possible result, but rather trying to avoid making mistakes (idiom)
- fig. to take a risk-averse approach
Trad. 醫之好治不病以為功
- doctors like to treat those who are not sick so that they can get credit for the patient's "recovery" (idiom)