闲工夫

閒工夫

xiángōngfu

noun #25,155

Meanings

1 free time; leisure
2 spare time to do something

Characters

idle; leisurely; free

man; suffix for time/effort

Examples

我哪有闲工夫陪你逛街？

Wǒ nǎ yǒu xiángōngfu péinǐ guàngjiē?

Where do I have the free time to go shopping with you?

他退休后有了很多闲工夫，就学起了书法。

Tā tuìxiū hòu yǒule hěnduō xiángōngfu, jiù xué qǐ le shūfǎ.

After retiring he had a lot of free time and took up calligraphy.

Tips

usage

闲工夫 is colloquial and often used in negative or rhetorical sentences: 没有闲工夫 or 哪有闲工夫 implies being too busy to do something.

Stroke Order

闲 xián

工 gōng

夫 fū