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苦 : Suffering

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suffering, trial, worry, hardship, feel bitter, scowl

On 'yomi:
(ku)
Kun 'yomi:
くる.しい(kuru.shii) -ぐる.しい(guru.shii) くる.しむ(kuru.shimu) くる.しめる(kuru.shimeru) にが.い(niga.i) にが.る(niga.ru)
Strokes:8
Radical: (140)
Usage Rating:623
JLPT:N3
old JLPT:2
Grade:3
Unicode:082e6
jis208:22-76
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苦 Usage examples

難行(なんぎょうくぎょう)penance, hardship
(ごうく)karmic suffering
界に身を沈める(くがいにみをしずめる)to become a prostitute (sink into a brothel)
味素(くみそ)bitter principle
しい言い訳(くるしいいいわけ)lame excuse, poor excuse
しい懐(くるしいふところ)tight budget
しがる(くるしがる)to suffer, to complain of a pain
(しっく)affliction, suffering
借金でしむ(しゃっきんでくるしむ)to be distressed with debts
い薬(にがいくすり)bitter medicine
い経験(にがいけいけん)bitter experience
り顔(にがりがお)sour (wry) face
楽あればあり(らくあればくあり)
楽有れば有り(らくあればくあり)
After pleasure comes pain, There is no pleasure without pain, There is no rose without a thorn, Take the good with the bad
(くない)mediaeval farming tool for digging, prying, etc.
学力行(くがくりっこう)strenuous pursuit of learning under difficulties
欠乏(こんくけつぼう)hardships and privations
焦心(しょうしんくりょ)worrying oneself (about), being anxious (about), fidgeting (about)
反間(はんかんくにく)stratagem for causing a rift in the enemy camp by using a seditious plot
労し抜く(くろうしぬく)to go through all sorts of hardships
()duhkha (suffering), anguish, suffering, distress, anxiety, worry, trouble, difficulty, hardship
艱難(かんなんくろう)trials and tribulations, adversities, suffering hardships and troubles
精進(こっくしょうじん)being arduous, working diligently enduring hardships, making a strenuous effort
精励(こっくせいれい)being arduous, working diligently enduring hardships, making a strenuous effort
窮乏(こんくきゅうぼう)hardships and privations
艱難(しんくかんなん)trials and tribulations, adversities, suffering hardships and troubles
辛酸甘(しんさんかんく)hardships and joys, tasting the sweets and bitters of life, (having seen much of life) being well-versed in the ways of the world
善戦(ぜんせんくとう)putting up a good fight against some odds
手意識(にがていしき)awareness that somebody will be hard to deal with, awareness that one is not good at something, (feeling) not up to doing something
大の(だいのにがて)dread, horror, hatred
虫を噛み潰したよう(にがむしをかみつぶしたよう)
虫を噛み潰した様(にがむしをかみつぶしたよう)
虫を噛みつぶしたよう(にがむしをかみつぶしたよう)
虫をかみつぶした様(にがむしをかみつぶしたよう)
虫を噛みつぶした様(にがむしをかみつぶしたよう)
sour (expression, as if having swallowed a bitter bug)
ホロ(ほろにがい)
ほろ(ほろにがい)
bittersweet, slightly bitter, something that has a strong taste that adults favor
餓えにしむ(うえにくるしむ)to be suffering from hunger
に病む(くにやむ)to worry, to suffer
集滅道(くしゅめつどう)Suffering, Source of Suffering Desire, The Cessation of Suffering, The Way Leading to the Cessation of Suffering (The Four Noble Truths of Buddhism)
(ニガナ)Ixeris dentata (species of the daisy family)
情調査官(くじょうちょうさかん)ombudsman
は楽の種(くはらくのたね)one cannot have pleasure without pain, no pain, no gain
楽はの種は楽の種(らくはくのたねくはらくのたね)one cannot have pain without pleasure, and one cannot have pleasure without pain
良薬は口に(りょうやくはくちににがし)good medicine tastes bitter, the most helpful advice may be difficult to listen to