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辛苦
xīnkǔ
1. hard
2. exhausting
3. with much toil
4. thanks for your trouble
HSK 4 Very Common • Top 3%

Character Breakdown

辛
xīn
bitter; toilsome, laborious; 8th heavenly stem
HSK 4 7 丶
苦
kǔ
bitter; hardship, suffering
HSK 4 8 丶

Compound Words (3)

不辞辛苦
bùcíxīnkǔ
to make nothing of hardships
备尝辛苦
bèichángxīnkǔ
to have suffered all kinds of hardships (idiom)
辛辛苦苦
xīnxīnkǔkǔ
painstakingly

Metadata

Category
Chinese
Word Frequency Rank
2,930 of 84,292