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苦く
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Meanings
Noun
1. pain; anguish; suffering; distress; anxiety; worry; trouble; difficulty; hardship
2. duhkha (suffering)
Other spellings
く
Kanji used
苦suffering
Pitch accent
く
Used in vocabulary
無む茶ちゃ苦く茶ちゃ
nonsensical; unreasonable; absurd; unrealistic; awfully; extremely; to excess; senseless; reckless; disorder; …
Na-adjective
生せい活かつ苦く
hardships of life (esp. due to lack of money); life's struggles
Noun
三さん重じゅう苦く
triple handicap (esp. blindness, deafness and mutism)
Noun
愛あい別べつ離り苦く
the pain of separation from loved ones
Noun
責せめ苦く
torture; pains (of hell)
Noun
人にん間げん苦く
human suffering
Noun
刻こっ苦く精しょう進じん
being arduous; working diligently enduring hardships; making a strenuous effort
Noun
借しゃっ金きん苦く
pain of being in debt
Noun
衆しゅ苦く充じゅう満まん
filled with numerous sufferings
No-adjective
二に重じゅう苦く
double torture; double pain; double hardship; double whammy
Noun
苦く土ど石せっ灰かい
dolomite lime
Noun
Examples9
He had no difficulty in finding the place.
One cannot have pain without pleasure, and one cannot have pleasure without pain.
No pain, no gain.
Pick a job that you enjoy and working will seem easy.
He made nothing of working for a long time.
He makes nothing of getting up early in the morning.