苦
kǔ HSK3

bitter

苦 kǔ
hardship noun
suffering; pain; a difficult or miserable situation or circumstance

她已经受够多苦了。

tā yǐ​jing shòu gòu duō kǔ le.

She has suffered enough.

不要让你的朋友一个人受苦！

bù​yào ràng nǐ de péng​you yí​ge​rén shòu kǔ!

Don’t let your friend suffer alone!

miserable adjective
hard; painful; experiencing or causing physical or mental distress
painstakingly adjectiveadverb
with great effort, persistence, or patience
bitter adjective
having a sharp, pungent taste like that of coffee or unsweetened cocoa; the opposite of 甜 tián
to suffer from
to be troubled by a specific condition or situation; to feel distressed by something
to cause suffering
to bring hardship or pain to someone; to make things difficult for others
surname
a Chinese surname
extremely
to an excessive degree; very much

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Antonym

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Frequency
Character
Written text
634th most common 326.6 per million
Movie subtitles
780th most common 161.5 per million appears in 54% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
22.8 per million appears in 10% of films
Written text
77.1 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 4
HSK 3.0
Level 3
Strokes
8
Unicode
U+82E6

Sources
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)