苦
HSK 4freq #2331
Meanings
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- 1.bitter
- 2.hardship
- 3.pain
- 4.to suffer
- 5.to bring suffering to
- 6.painstakingly
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Wiktionary
- 1.bitter
- 2.difficult; painful; hard
- 3.hardship; suffering
- 4.dukkha
- 5.excessive
- 6.to cause someone suffering; to give someone a hard time
- 7.to suffer from; to be handicapped by
- 8.to worry about; to be concerned about
- 9.strenuously; painstakingly
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Etymology
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *kʰaːʔ, *kʰaːs): semantic 艸 (“grass”) + phonetic 古 (OC *kaːʔ) – bitter (as in bitter plants). From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *kaʔ (“bitter; salty”); compare Tibetan ཁ (kha, “bitter”), Tangut 𗎖 (*khie¹, “bitter”) (STEDT; Jacques, 2014). Within Chinese, cognate with 肝 (OC *kaːn, “liver”).
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Stroke order
Components
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Example sentences
苦盡甘来。
No pain, no gain.
這是一項艱苦的工作。
This is painstaking work.
他們不怕艱苦的工作。
They're not afraid of hard work.
小洞及時補，免遭大洞苦。
A stitch in time saves nine.
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Synonyms
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Derived terms
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