Kanji1 / 8
苦 kanji
suffering, trial, worry, hardship, feel bitter, scowl
- JLPT level
- N3 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N4 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 8
- School grade
- Grade 3 (elementary school)
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Kun readings
くるしい-ぐるしいくるしむくるしめるにがいにがる
Words with 苦
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —苦渋をなめるto have a bitter experience
- —苦渋を舐めるto have a bitter experience
- —苦渋を嘗めるto have a bitter experience
- —苦労を掛けるto cause someone trouble; to burden someone
- —苦杯を舐めるto drink a bitter cup; to have a bitter experience; to suffer a defeat
- —苦杯を嘗めるto drink a bitter cup; to have a bitter experience; to suffer a defeat
- —楽有れば苦有りafter pleasure comes pain; there is no pleasure without pain; there is no rose without a thorn; take the good with the bad
- —苦有れば楽有りno pain, no gain; no cross, no crown
- —気苦労がたえないhaving no end of worries; being constantly plagued by anxiety
- —若いときの苦労は買ってもせよspare no effort while you are young; heavy work in youth is quiet rest in old age