苦 (kǔ)
bitter; hardship; suffering; painstaking
How 苦 is written
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 艹 — grass
- Traditional
- 苦
- Simplified
- 苦 (unchanged)
Common words using 苦
- 痛苦 tòngkǔ
- pain; suffering; painful
- 辛苦 xīnkǔ
- hard; exhausting; with much toil
- 何苦 hékǔ
- why bother?; is it worth the trouble?
- 刻苦 kèkǔ
- hardworking; assiduous
- 千辛萬苦 qiānxīnwànkǔ
- to suffer untold hardships (idiom); trials and tribulations; with difficulty; after some effort
- 受苦 shòukǔ
- to suffer; hardship
- 吃苦 chīkǔ
- to bear; hardships
- 艱苦 jiānkǔ
- difficult; hard; arduous
- 苦力 kǔlì
- bitter work; hard toil; coolie (English is loan word), unskilled Chinese laborer in colonial times
- 苦命 kǔmìng
- hard lot; bitter fate
- 苦工 kǔgōng
- hard labor (in penal code); coolie
- 苦心 kǔxīn
- painstaking effort; to take a lot of trouble; laborious at pains
苦 in a sentence
今天辛苦你了。
Jīntiān xīnkǔ nǐ le.
“You've worked hard today. (Thanks for your trouble)”
How common is 苦?
苦 is the 633rd most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 80.8% of all running text.
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