苦谏 kǔjiàn to admonish strenuously; earnest admonition Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 苦 kǔ adjectiveadverb painstakingly with great effort, persistence, or patience谏 諫 jiàn to admonish (bound form) to urge someone to correct their mistakes; to remonstrate, typically used for an inferior advising a superior