苦

Stroke order

Example sentences

• 我知道你有痛苦。

  Wǒ zhī dào nǐ yǒu tòng kǔ

  We know you're in pain.

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• 好奇会吃苦头的。

  Hào qí huì chī kǔ tou de

  Curiosity killed the cat.

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• 他比您更刻苦。

  Tā bǐ nín gèng kè kǔ

  He's even more hardworking than you are.

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• 她比您更刻苦。

  Tā bǐ nín gèng kè kǔ

  She's even more hardworking than you are.

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Words containing 苦

• 痛苦tòng kǔ 4–3 pain; suffering; painful
• 苦kǔ 3bitter; hardship; pain; to suffer; to bring suffering to; painstakingly
• 辛苦xīn kǔ 1–3 exhausting; hard; tough; arduous; to work hard; to go to a lot of trouble; hardship(s)
• 艰苦jiān kǔ 1–3 difficult; hard; arduous
• 刻苦kè kǔ 4–3 hardworking; assiduous
• 酸甜苦辣suān tián kǔ là 1–2–3–4sour, sweet, bitter and spicy hot; fig. the joys and sorrows of life
• 吃苦chī kǔ 1–3 to bear hardships
• 苦尽甘来kǔ jìn gān lái 3–4–1–2bitterness finishes, sweetness begins (idiom); the hard times are over, the good times just beginning
• 苦难kǔ nàn 3–4 suffering
• 苦恼kǔ nǎo 3–3 → 2–3vexed; distressed
• 受苦shòu kǔ 4–3 to suffer hardship
• 挖苦wā kǔ 1–3 to speak sarcastically; to make cutting remarks; also pr. [wā ku]