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
- —苦吟laborious composition; struggling to compose a poem
- —苦汁bitter liquid; bitter experience
- —苦肉hurting oneself (to trick an adversary)
- —苦寒coldest time of the year; bitter suffering
- —苦節unremitting effort; dogged perseverance; unswerving loyalty
- —苦熱intense heat
- —痛苦anguish; (great) pain
- —甘苦sweetness and bitterness; joys and sorrows
- —業苦karmic suffering
- —疾苦affliction; suffering
- —苦無ninja throwing knives; medieval farming tool for digging, prying, etc.
- —四苦the four kinds of suffering (birth, old age, disease, death)
- —苦諦truth of suffering
- —苦厄hardship and misfortune
- —重苦intense suffering
- —死苦inevitability of death (one of the four kinds of suffering); death pains; agony of death
- —苦鳴cries of pain
- —惨苦terrible pain; terrible hardship; terrible suffering
- —寒苦suffering caused by the cold
- —苦患hellish pain; suffering; distress; agony