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
- —取り越し苦労overanxiety; needless worry
- —苦汁をなめるto have a bitter experience
- —苦言を呈するto give candid advice; to give harsh but honest advice; to admonish
- —苦労をかけるto cause someone trouble; to burden someone
- —苦杯をなめるto drink a bitter cup; to have a bitter experience; to suffer a defeat
- —苦杯を喫するto drink a bitter cup; to have a bitter experience; to suffer a defeat
- —楽あれば苦ありafter pleasure comes pain; there is no pleasure without pain; there is no rose without a thorn; take the good with the bad
- —苦あれば楽ありno pain, no gain; no cross, no crown
- —苦楽を共にするto share (life's) joys and sorrows (with); to share the good and the bad (with); to stick together through thick and thin
- —気苦労が絶えないhaving no end of worries; being constantly plagued by anxiety
- —楽は苦の種、苦は楽の種there's no pain without pleasure, and there's no pleasure without pain
- —若い時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
- —苦況difficult situation; adverse circumstances; predicament; trouble; dilemma; distress
- —苦脳(mental) agony; anguish; suffering; distress
- —苦盃bitter cup; bitter experience; bitter defeat; ordeal
- —苦敗bitter cup; bitter experience; bitter defeat; ordeal
- —苦勞trouble; hardship; difficulty; labour; labor; toil; pains; anxiety; worry; concern; cares
- —責苦torture; pains (of hell)
- —御苦労trouble (I have put you through); (your) hard work; thank you (for your hard work); I appreciate your efforts
- —不苦労owl (esp. the Ural owl, Strix uralensis)