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)
On readings
ク
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
- —勤苦toil and hardship
- —苦界world of suffering; life of prostitution
- —苦学working one's way through school; earning one's own school fees; studying under adversity; studying in harsh economic circumstances
- —苦楽pleasure and pain; joys and sorrows
- —苦行penance; austerities; mortification; asceticism; difficult work; strenuous task
- —苦衷distress; anguish; mental suffering
- —苦土magnesia; magnesium oxide
- —苦闘hard fight; difficult struggle
- —苦杯bitter cup; bitter experience; bitter defeat; ordeal
- —苦悶anguish
- —苦役toil; drudgery; penal servitude; imprisonment (with hard labour)
- —刻苦hard work
- —困苦privation; hardship
- —忍苦endurance; stoicism
- —八苦the eight kinds of suffering (birth, old age, disease, death, parting from loved ones, meeting disliked ones, not getting what one seeks, pains of the five skandha)
- —貧苦hardships of poverty; serious poverty
- —憂苦trouble; distress; sorrow
- —離苦agony of separation
- —労苦labor; labour; toil; hardship
- —艱苦hardship; suffering; privation; adversity