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
- —菱苦土石magnesite
- —一切皆苦all things are causes of sufferings
- —夜露死苦best regards; please remember me; please treat me favorably (favourably); please take care of
- —衆苦充満filled with numerous sufferings
- —苦土石灰dolomite lime
- —苦土明礬pickeringite
- —苦海浄土Paradise in the Sea of Sorrow: Our Minamata Disease (1960 semi-fictional novel by Michiko Ishimure)
- —ご苦労さんI appreciate your efforts
- —精神的苦痛mental anguish; mental distress
- —苦労し抜くto go through all sorts of hardships
- —苦情調査官ombudsman
- —苦は楽の種one cannot have pleasure without pain; no pain, no gain
- —苦味チンキbitter tincture
- —苦難の行軍Arduous March; North Korean famine of the late 1990s
- —苦礬柘榴石pyrope
- —天父受苦説patripassianism (theology)
- —苦境に立つto be in difficulties; to be in trouble; to be in a difficult situation
- —苦渋の決断agonizing decision
- —超苦鉄質岩ultramafic rock
- —苦情処理機関grievance machinery; complaints department