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
- —七難八苦the Seven Misfortunes and Eight Pains; a series of disasters
- —愛別離苦the pain of separation from loved ones
- —難行苦行penance; hardship
- —苦学力行strenuous pursuit of learning under difficulties
- —困苦欠乏hardships and privations
- —焦心苦慮worrying oneself (about); being anxious (about); fidgeting (about)
- —反間苦肉stratagem for causing a rift in the enemy camp by using a seditious plot
- —艱難苦労trials and tribulations; adversities; suffering hardships and troubles
- —刻苦精進being arduous; working diligently enduring hardships; making a strenuous effort
- —刻苦精励being arduous; working diligently enduring hardships; making a strenuous effort
- —困苦窮乏hardships and privations
- —辛苦艱難trials and tribulations; adversities; suffering hardships and troubles
- —辛酸甘苦hardships and joys; tasting the sweets and bitters of life; being well-versed in the ways of the world (having seen much of life)
- —善戦苦闘putting up a good fight against some odds
- —苦に病むto worry (about); to be terribly worried (about); to be very concerned (about); to be sick with worry
- —苦集滅道Suffering, Source of Suffering Desire, The Cessation of Suffering, The Way Leading to the Cessation of Suffering (The Four Noble Truths of Buddhism)
- —怨憎会苦the pain of meeting people one dislikes
- —求不得苦the pain of not getting what one seeks
- —抜苦与楽a Buddha or Bodhisattva taking away suffering and conferring peace
- —菱苦土鉱magnesite