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82E6
苦
bitter; hardship, suffering
Radical
Strokes (without radical) 5 Total Strokes 11
Mandarin reading Cantonese reading fu2
Japanese on reading ku Japanese kun reading nigai kurushii kurushimu
Korean reading ko Vietnamese reading khổ

CEDICT Entries:

   [ ]    bitter, hardship, pain, to suffer, to bring suffering to, painstakingly
   [ bu ]    slightly bitter
   [ bu ]    erhua variant of 苦不唧[ku3 bu5 ji1]
   [ kān yán ]    to suffer unspeakable misery, indescribably painful, hellish
   [ zhōng zuò ]    to find joy in sorrows (idiom); to enjoy sth in spite of one's suffering
   [ zhǔ ]    victim's family (esp. in murder case)
   [ shì ]    hard job, arduous task
   [ xíng ]    torture, corporal punishment (traditionally involving mutilation or amputation)
   [ ]    bitter work, hard toil, (loanword) coolie, unskilled Chinese laborer in colonial times
   [ gōng ]    hard work, laborious effort, painstaking work
   [ laó ]    toil, hard work
   [ shēn ]    liquorice (Sophora flavescens), with roots used in TCM
   [ koǔ ]    lit. bitter taste (cf good medicine tastes bitter 良藥苦口|良药苦口), fig. earnestly (of warning, advice)
   [ koǔ xīn ]    earnest and well-meaning advice (idiom); to persuade patiently
   [ weì ]    bitter taste, bitterness
   [ mìng ]    hard lot, bitter fate, unfortunate
   [ ]    to have difficulty getting by, to struggle (financially etc)
   [ yīn ]    affliction
   [ jìng ]    grievance, dire straits
   [ choú shēn ]    great bitterness, deep hatred (idiom); deeply ingrained long-standing resentment
   [ hán ]    bitter cold
   [ gōng ]    hard labor (in penal code), coolie
   [ chaī ]    hard task, difficult mission, arduous and unrewarding undertaking, drudgery, grind, chore
   [ chaī shi ]    see 苦差[ku3 chai1]
   [ gàn ]    to work hard
   [ ]    forced labor, corvée, penal servitude
   [ daì ]    treat harshly
   [ xīn ]    painstaking effort, to take a lot of trouble, laborious at pains
   [ xīn ]    to make painstaking efforts (idiom); after much trouble, to work hard at sth
   [ xīn jīng yíng ]    to build up an enterprise through painstaking efforts
   [ ]    to think hard, bitter thoughts, to pour out one's sufferings
   [ míng xiǎng ]    to consider from all angles (idiom); to think hard, to rack one's brains
   [ mèn ]    depressed, dejected, feeling low
   [ qíng ]    wretched situation, plight, wretched, miserable
   [ naǒ ]    vexed, distressed
   [ zhàn ]    bitter struggle, hard battle, arduous effort
   [ ]    to suffer from (a disadvantage)
   [ zi ]    hard times
   [ xìng rén gān ]    amygdalin
   [ guǒ ]    lit. bitter fruit, fig. painful consequence
   [ gēn ]    underlying cause of poverty
   [ chǔ ]    suffering, misery, pain (esp. psychological)
   [ liàn ]    chinaberry (Melia azedarach)
   [ shuǐ ]    bitter water (e.g. mineral water containing sulfates), suffering, digestive fluids rising from stomach to the mouth, fig. bitter complaint
   [ kuàng ]    wretched state, miserable plight
   [ huó ]    bitter work, sweated labor
   [ huó ]    erhua variant of 苦活[ku3 huo2]
   [ haǐ ]    lit. sea of bitterness, abyss of worldly suffering (Buddhist term), depths of misery
   [ haǐ biān huí toú shì àn ]    The sea of bitterness has no bounds, turn your head to see the shore (idiom). Only Buddhist enlightenment can allow one to shed off the abyss of worldly suffering., Repent and ye shall be saved!
   [ haǐ máng máng ]    sea of bitterness is vast (idiom)
   [ ]    bitter and astringent, pained, agonized
   [ ]    to endure (years of suffering)
   [ guā ]    bitter melon (bitter gourd, balsam pear, balsam apple, leprosy gourd, bitter cucumber)
   [ guā liǎn ]    sour expression on one's face
   [ gān ]    bitter sweet
   [ tòng ]    pain, suffering
   [ jìn gān laí ]    bitterness finishes, sweetness begins (idiom); the hard times are over, the good times just beginning
   [ yaó ]    (slang) prison
   [ zhú ]    bitter bamboo (Pleioblastus amarus)
   [ ]    to force a smile, a bitter laugh
   [ liàn ]    to train hard, to practice diligently, hard work, blood, sweat, and tears
   [ roù ]    the trick of injuring oneself to gain the enemy's confidence, CL:條|条[tiao2]
   [ dǎn ]    gall bladder
   [ ]    wormwood, Artemisia absinthium
   [ jiǔ ]    absinthe (distilled anise-based liquor)
   [ líng ]    chinaberry (Melia azedarach)
   [ ]    endive
   [ ]    strenuously, persistently, hard, painful
   [ qiú ]    to entreat piteously, to implore
   [ ]    endive
   [ caì huā ]    Bitter Cauliflower, 1954 socialist realist novel by Feng Deying 馮德英|冯德英[Feng2 De2 ying1] loosely based on Maxim Gorky's Mother, made into a 1967 film by Li Ang
   [ maǐ caì ]    Ixeris denticulata
   [ zhí ]    cutleaf ground-cherry, Physalis angulata
   [ chu ]    suffering, distress
   [ xíng ]    ascetic practice
   [ xíng shú zuì ]    penance (to atone for a sin)
   [ zhōng ]    secret trouble, sorrow, difficulties
   [ jiàn ]    to admonish strenuously
   [ ]    wretched feelings (opposite: 樂趣|乐趣, delight)
   [ dié ]    coup d'état (loanword)
   [ miè daò ]    the Four Noble Truths (Budd.), namely: all life is suffering 苦[ku3], the cause of suffering is desire 集[ji2], emancipation comes only by eliminating passions 滅|灭[mie4], the way 道[dao4] to emancipation is the Eight-fold Noble Way 八正道[ba1 zheng4 dao4], also called 四諦|四谛[si4 di4]
   [ nàn ]    suffering
   [ nàn shēn zhòng ]    deep grief, extensive sorrow
   [ tou ]    sufferings
⇒    [ shèng ]    unable to bear the pain (idiom)
⇒    [ laó ]    to spare no effort
⇒    [ xīn ]    to make nothing of hardships
⇒    [ èr biàn ]    second persecution
⇒    [ ]    why bother?, is it worth the trouble?
⇒    [ daò xuán zhī ]    lit. the pain of being hanged upside down (idiom); fig. extremely critical situation, dire straits
⇒    [ daò shuǐ ]    to pour out one's grievances
⇒    [ beì cháng xīn ]    to have suffered all kinds of hardships (idiom)
⇒    [ ]    the eight distresses - birth, age, sickness, death, parting with what we love, meeting with what we hate, unattained aims, and all the ills of the five skandhas (Buddhism)
⇒    [ yuān ]    to treat (sb) unjustly, anguish caused by an injustice
⇒    [ míng xiǎng ]    to consider from all angles (idiom); to think hard, to rack one's brains
⇒    [ míng suǒ ]    to mull over (idiom), to think long and hard
⇒    [ ]    hardworking, assiduous
⇒    [ ]    assiduous, taking great pains
⇒    [ xué ]    to study hard, assiduous
⇒    [ naì laó ]    to bear hardships and work hard (idiom); assiduous and long-suffering, hard-working and capable of overcoming adversity
⇒    [ zuān yán ]    to study diligently
⇒    [ laó xīn ]    to rack one's brains, to think hard
⇒    [ laó ]    to toil, hard work
⇒    [ qín fèn ]    diligent, assiduous
⇒    [ qín xué liàn ]    to study diligently, to train assiduously
⇒    [ qín ]    hardworking, assiduous
⇒    [ qiān xīn wàn ]    to suffer untold hardships (idiom); trials and tribulations, with difficulty, after some effort
⇒    [ shoù ]    to suffer hardship
⇒    [ ]    to whine about hardships, to complain of one's bitter lot, to complain, to grumble
⇒    [ bu dié ]    to complain without stopping (idiom); to bitch endlessly, incessant grievances
⇒    [ lián tiān ]    to whine on for days (idiom), to endlessly grumble complaints, incessant whining
⇒    [ chī zhōng fāng weí rén shàng rén ]    one cannot achieve glory and wealth without having been through trials and tribulations (proverb), no pain, no gain
⇒    [ chī zhōng fāng weí rén shàng rén ]    one cannot achieve glory and wealth without having been through trials and tribulations (proverb), no pain, no gain
⇒    [ chī ]    to bear hardships
⇒    [ chī naì laó ]    hardworking and enduring hardships (idiom)
⇒    [ chī tou ]    to suffer, to suffer for one's actions, to pay dearly, to burn one's fingers
⇒    [ tóng gān gòng ]    shared delights and common hardships (idiom); to share life's joys and sorrows, for better or for worse
⇒    [ tóng gān ]    to share joys and sorrows, sharing good times and hard times, same as 同甘共苦
⇒    [ shuǐ ]    to have bitter digestive fluids rising to the mouth, fig. to complain bitterly, to pour out one's sufferings
⇒    [ hán xīn ]    to suffer every possible torment (idiom); bitter hardship, to bear one's cross
⇒    [ mìng ]    to be born under an ill star
⇒    [ ba chī huáng lián yoǔ shuō bu chū ]    to be forced to suffer in silence (idiom), unable to speak of one's bitter suffering, sometimes written 啞子吃黃連,有苦說不出|哑子吃黄连,有苦说不出
⇒    [ zuǐ tián xīn ]    sweet mouth, bitter heart (idiom); insincere flattery
⇒    [ kùn ]    deprivation, distressed, miserable
⇒    [ maí toú gàn ]    to bury oneself in work (idiom); to be engrossed in work, to make an all-out effort, up to the neck in work
⇒    [ jiān zhuó jué ]    persisting despite trials and tribulations (idiom); conspicuous determination
⇒    [ líng dīng ]    solitary and impoverished (idiom)
⇒    [ líng dīng ]    variant of 孤苦伶仃[gu1 ku3 ling2 ding1]
⇒    [ xué ]    to study hard, assiduous
⇒    [ dòng dòng shoù ]    A small hole not plugged will make you suffer a big hole (idiom); A stitch in time saves nine.
⇒    [ dòng dòng chī ]    a small hole not plugged will give you grief when it gets bigger (idiom), a stitch in time saves nine
⇒    [ dòng dòng chī ]    A small hole not plugged will make you suffer a big hole (idiom); a stitch in time saves nine
⇒    [ beī ]    forlorn, miserable
⇒    [ ]    bleak, miserable
⇒    [ choú meí liǎn ]    to look anxious (idiom), to look miserable
⇒    [ choú ]    anxiety, distress
⇒    [ bié ]    (Buddhism) the pain of parting with what (or whom) one loves, one of the eight distresses 八苦[ba1 ku3]
⇒    [ yoū zhōng ]    worried to death (idiom)
⇒    [ tián ]    to view one's past as miserable and one's present as happy (idiom)
⇒    [ fàn ]    unsavory meal taken in remembrance of past hardships, fig. poor-tasting meal
⇒    [ ]    to speak sarcastically, to make cutting remarks, also pr. [wa1 ku5]
⇒    [ yoǔ shuō bu chū ]    having unspeakable bitter suffering, (often used after 啞巴吃黃連|哑巴吃黄连[ya3 ba5 chi1 huang2 lian2])
⇒    [ huà ]    chloropicrin
⇒    [ xuè zhàn ]    a blood soaked and hard-fought struggle (idiom)
⇒    [ fēng ]    lit. bleak wind and icy rain (idiom), fig. hardships, miserable circumstances
⇒    [ qīng ]    destitute but honest, poor and simple, spartan, austere
⇒    [ shà feì xīn ]    to take a lot of trouble (idiom); painstaking, at the cost of a lot of effort
⇒    [ gān ]    good times and hardships, joys and tribulations, for better or for worse
⇒    [ yòng xīn liáng ]    to ponder earnestly, to give a lot of thought to sth
⇒    [ ]    pain and difficulties, suffering (of the people)
⇒    [ bìng ]    pains (of illness), sufferings (esp. in Buddhism)
⇒    [ tòng ]    pain, suffering, painful, CL:個|个[ge4]
⇒    [ baí xiōng è ]    (bird species of China) white-breasted waterhen (Amaurornis phoenicurus)
⇒    [ huáng tiān xīn rén ]    Heaven will not disappoint the person who tries (idiom). If you try hard, you're bound to succeed eventually.
⇒    [ roù zhī ]    physical pain, lit. skin and flesh suffer
⇒    [ haō ]    see 熊膽草|熊胆草[xiong2 dan3 cao3]
⇒    [ zhí ]    Peruvian ground-cherry, cape gooseberry, Physalis peruviana
⇒    [ qióng xiǎng ]    to think hard (idiom), to give sth much thought
⇒    [ qióng ]    impoverished, destitute
⇒    [ hóng è ]    (bird species of China) brown crake (Amaurornis akool)
⇒    [ tuō haǐ ]    to escape from the abyss of suffering, to shed off a wretched plight
⇒    [ zhaǒ chī ]    to bring trouble on oneself
⇒    [ taǒ chī ]    to ask for trouble (idiom), to make a rod for one's own back
⇒    [ shí guǒ ]    see 自食惡果|自食恶果[zi4 shi2 e4 guo3]
⇒    [ liáng gōng xīn ]    expert craft from hard practice (idiom); hard-won skill, A masterpiece demands suffering.
⇒    [ liáng yòng xīn ]    to ponder earnestly, to give a lot of thought to sth
⇒    [ liáng yaò koǔ ]    good medicine tastes bitter (idiom); fig. frank criticism is hard to swallow
⇒    [ jiān ]    difficult, hard, arduous
⇒    [ jiān fèn doù ]    to struggle arduously
⇒    [ jiān ]    leading a plain, hardworking life (idiom)
⇒    [ ]    strenuously, persistently, hard, painful
⇒    [ qiú ]    to entreat piteously, to implore
⇒    [ hán xīn ]    bitter hardship, to bear one's cross
⇒    [ wàn fēn tòng ]    excruciating
⇒    [ zhuāng qióng ]    to feign and complain bitterly of being poverty stricken (idiom)
⇒    [ fǎng pín wèn ]    to visit the poor and ask about their suffering (idiom)
⇒    [ ]    to grumble, to complain, grievance
⇒    [ biàn ]    to sour, to turn sour, to curdle
⇒    [ pín ]    poverty-stricken, poor
⇒    [ maì ]    to make a hard living as unskilled laborer
⇒    [ dūn yaó ]    (slang) to be behind bars
⇒    [ xīn ]    exhausting, hard, tough, arduous, to work hard, to go to a lot of trouble, hardship(s)
⇒    [ xīn xīn ]    painstakingly, with great trouble
⇒    [ xīn xīn ]    painstakingly, with great trouble
⇒    [ suān tián ]    sour, sweet, bitter and spicy hot, fig. the joys and sorrows of life
⇒    [ ]    to abandon suffering and obtain happiness (Buddhism)

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