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苦
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Definitions
- 1. bitter
- 2. hardship
- 3. pain
- 4. to suffer
- 5. to bring suffering to
- 6. painstakingly
Example Sentences
1 shown先 苦 後樂。
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Words Containing 苦
to endure (years of suffering)
the eight distresses - birth, age, sickness, death, parting with what we love, meeting with what we hate, unattained aims, and all the ills of the five skandhas (Buddhism)
The sea of bitterness has no bounds, turn your head to see the shore (idiom). Only Buddhist enlightenment can allow one to shed off the abyss of worldly suffering.
to ponder earnestly
chinaberry (Melia azedarach)
leading a plain, hardworking life (idiom)
physical pain
to take a lot of trouble (idiom); painstaking
solitary and impoverished (idiom)
to speak sarcastically
victim's family (esp. in murder case)
lit. bitter taste (cf good medicine tastes bitter 良藥苦口|良药苦口)
wormwood
bitter struggle
worried to death (idiom)
Bitter Cauliflower, 1954 socialist realist novel by Feng Deying 馮德英|冯德英[féng dé yīng] loosely based on Maxim Gorky's Mother, made into a 1967 film by Li Ang
to ask for trouble (idiom)
to have suffered all kinds of hardships (idiom)
to suffer unspeakable misery
hardworking
forced labor
treat harshly
absinthe (distilled anise-based liquor)
to visit the poor and ask about their suffering (idiom)
hard labor (in penal code)
underlying cause of poverty
pain and difficulties
good times and hardships
to make a hard living as unskilled laborer
second persecution
bitter water (e.g. mineral water containing sulfates)
persisting despite trials and tribulations (idiom); conspicuous determination
to treat (sb) unjustly
see 熊膽草|熊胆草[xióng dǎn cǎo]
deep grief
to study diligently
wretched feelings (opposite: 樂趣|乐趣, delight)
hard work
exhausting
sour expression on one's face
forlorn
to bear hardships and work hard (idiom); assiduous and long-suffering
torture
to make nothing of hardships
strenuously
unable to bear the pain (idiom)
to find joy in sorrows (idiom); to enjoy sth in spite of one's suffering
hard lot
coup d'état (loanword)
painstaking effort
see 苦差[kǔ chāi]
great bitterness, deep hatred (idiom); deeply ingrained long-standing resentment
A small hole not plugged will make you suffer a big hole (idiom); A stitch in time saves nine.
to bear hardships
to force a smile
to whine about hardships
endive
(slang) prison
excruciating
to pour out one's grievances
secret trouble
diligent
to study diligently
ascetic practice
chloropicrin
vexed
bitter work
having unspeakable bitter suffering
to be born under an ill star
poverty-stricken
to admonish strenuously
deprivation
grievance
suffering
to have difficulty getting by
slightly bitter
to be forced to suffer in silence (idiom)
sour, sweet, bitter and spicy hot
depressed
affliction
chinaberry (Melia azedarach)
good medicine tastes bitter (idiom); fig. frank criticism is hard to swallow
to study hard
difficult
(slang) to be behind bars
bitter work
to suffer every possible torment (idiom); bitter hardship
hard times
(bird species of China) brown crake (Amaurornis akool)
bitter sweet
amygdalin
suffering
bitter bamboo (Pleioblastus amarus)
to consider from all angles (idiom); to think hard
to escape from the abyss of suffering
lit. the pain of being hanged upside down (idiom); fig. extremely critical situation
to train hard
to view one's past as miserable and one's present as happy (idiom)
to consider from all angles (idiom); to think hard
bitter hardship
bitter melon (bitter gourd, balsam pear, balsam apple, leprosy gourd, bitter cucumber)
impoverished
sweet mouth, bitter heart (idiom); insincere flattery
to build up an enterprise through painstaking efforts
Heaven will not disappoint the person who tries (idiom). If you try hard, you're bound to succeed eventually.
to bury oneself in work (idiom); to be engrossed in work
penance (to atone for a sin)
lit. bitter fruit
to feign and complain bitterly of being poverty stricken (idiom)
why bother?
toil
painstakingly
a blood soaked and hard-fought struggle (idiom)
with difficulty
gall bladder
to study hard
to struggle arduously
the trick of injuring oneself to gain the enemy's confidence
hard task
to abandon suffering and obtain happiness (Buddhism)
to make painstaking efforts (idiom); after much trouble
to look anxious (idiom)
to toil
cutleaf ground-cherry
to share joys and sorrows
shared delights and common hardships (idiom); to share life's joys and sorrows
to suffer hardship
sea of bitterness is vast (idiom)
(Buddhism) the pain of parting with what (or whom) one loves, one of the eight distresses 八苦[bā kǔ]
bitter taste
to mull over (idiom)
to think hard (idiom)
(bird species of China) white-breasted waterhen (Amaurornis phoenicurus)
suffering
hard job
pains (of illness)
Peruvian ground-cherry
assiduous
hardworking and enduring hardships (idiom)
to suffer from (a disadvantage)
one cannot achieve glory and wealth without having been through trials and tribulations (proverb)
bleak
to grumble
anxiety
lit. a small hole not plugged will give you grief when it gets bigger (idiom)
destitute but honest
to have bitter digestive fluids rising to the mouth
see 自食惡果|自食恶果[zì shí è guǒ]
lit. bleak wind and icy rain (idiom)
to ponder earnestly
to suffer
endive
to think hard
to bring trouble on oneself
lit. sea of bitterness
bitter and astringent
sufferings
to entreat piteously
A small hole not plugged will make you suffer a big hole (idiom); a stitch in time saves nine
to spare no effort
to complain without stopping (idiom); to bitch endlessly
wretched situation
to whine on for days (idiom)
earnest and well-meaning advice (idiom); to persuade patiently
to work hard
pain
pain
bitterness finishes, sweetness begins (idiom); the hard times are over, the good times just beginning
Ixeris denticulata
unsavory meal taken in remembrance of past hardships
hardworking
wretched state
expert craft from hard practice (idiom); hard-won skill
to rack one's brains
also called 四諦|四谛[sì dì]