日本語道場

Nihongo Dojo — N3 → N2

Kanji
苦

N2

Meaningssuffering, trial, worry, hardship, feel bitter
On'yomiク
Kun'yomiくる、-ぐる、くる、くる、にが、にが
Strokes8
Radical艸

Compounds

  • thank you (for your hard work), I appreciate your efforts

  • bitter (taste), sour (expression, look), bitter, displeased

  • painful, difficult, tough, hard

  • pain, anguish, distress, suffering

  • to suffer, to groan, to be worried

  • to torment, to pain, to inflict (physical) pain, to hurt

  • difficult situation, adverse circumstances, predicament, trouble

  • complaint, troubles, objection, grievance

  • hard fight, close game, struggle, tight contest

  • suffering, distress, hardship, trial

  • racking one's brains, worrying oneself, being anxious

  • trouble, hardship, difficulty, labour

Example sentences

  • Passion creates suffering.

  • I'm not good at posting stuff online.

  • Toil and worry caused his health to break down.

  • Among the people of the colonies suffering under Earth's tyranny a force emerges intending to overthrow the status quo through terrorism.

  • There can be no people who have gone through as many hardships this century as the Jews.

  • Hi Mr Ant, keeping up the good work today as well. Here's a sugar cube.

  • Do you intend to throw away in one instant what our family has painstakingly built up?

  • So, well, it's a bitter decision for the student council to make as well. Give 'em a break.