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工く夫ふう
Meanings
Noun
Verb (する)
1. devising (a way); contriving; figuring out; coming up with; working out; inventing
Noun
2. device; design; idea; plan; invention
Noun
Verb (する)
3. dedication to spiritual improvement (esp. through Zen meditation)
Alt. forms
工く夫ふう
87%
くふう
10%
功く夫ふう
1%
Kanji used
工
construction
夫
husband
Pitch accent
く
ふう
Top 6000
Conjugations...Used in: 1946
Used in vocabulary (3 in total)
ingenuity; inventiveness; creative originality
to exercise one's ingenuity; to come up with an ingenious plan
contrivance; bit of fiddling; little ingenuity; bit more (e.g. food)