艰苦备尝 jiānkǔbèicháng to have suffered untold hardships Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 艰苦 艱苦 jiānkǔ adjective arduous difficult and hard; involving great struggle or physical hardship备 備 bèi verb fully (literary) fully; completely; in every way尝 嘗 cháng to experience to experience or come to know something through personal involvement; to undergo