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苦
kǔ
1.
bitter
2.
hardship
3.
pain
4.
to suffer
5.
to bring suffering to
6.
painstakingly
Character Breakdown (Single character)
Compound Words (20)
何苦
hékǔ
why bother?
八苦
bākǔ
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)
冤苦
yuānkǔ
suffering from injustice
凄苦
qīkǔ
bleak
刻苦
kèkǔ
hardworking
劳苦
láokǔ
labor
勤苦
qínkǔ
hardworking
受苦
shòukǔ
to suffer hardship
叫苦
jiàokǔ
to whine about hardships
吃苦
chīkǔ
to bear hardships
命苦
mìngkǔ
to be born under an ill star
困苦
kùnkǔ
deprivation
愁苦
chóukǔ
anxiety
挖苦
wākǔ
to speak sarcastically
清苦
qīngkǔ
destitute but honest
甘苦
gānkǔ
good times and hardships
疾苦
jíkǔ
pain and difficulties
痛苦
tòngkǔ
pain
穷苦
qióngkǔ
impoverished
艰苦
jiānkǔ
difficult
Example Sentences (1)
比如广东省的人爱喝的“凉茶”，它的味道稍微有点儿苦，其实是一种用中药做成的饮料。
Bǐrú Guǎngdōng shěng de rén ài hē de "liángchá", tā de wèidào shāowéi yǒudiǎnr kǔ, qíshí shì yī zhǒng yòng zhōngyào zuò chéng de yǐnliào.
For example, the "liangcha" that people in Guangdong Province love to drink tastes slightly bitter. In fact, it is a beverage made from traditional Chinese medicine.
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Metadata
- Category
- Chinese
- HSK Character Level
- 4
- Character Frequency Rank
- 633
- Word Frequency Rank
- 2,181 of 84,292