(kǔ) bitter; hardship; pain; to suffer; to bring suffering to; painstakingly
(kǔbujī) slightly bitter
(kǔbujīr) erhua variant of 苦不唧, slightly bitter
(kǔzhōngzuòlè) to find joy in sorrows (idiom); to enjoy sth in spite of one's suffering
(kǔzhǔ) victim's family (esp. in murder case)
(kǔshì) hard job; arduous task
(kǔxíng) torture; corporal punishment (traditionally involving mutilation or amputation)
(kǔlì) bitter work; hard toil; coolie (English is loan word), unskilled Chinese laborer in colonial times
(kǔgōng) hard work; laborious effort; painstaking work
(kǔláo) toil; hard work
(kǔshēn) liquorice (Sophora flavescens), with roots used in traditional Chinese medicine
(kǔkǒu) lit. bitter taste (cf good medicine tastes bitter 良藥苦口|良药苦口); fig. earnestly (of warning, advice)
(kǔkǒupóxīn) earnest and well-meaning advice (idiom); to persuade patiently
(kǔwèi) bitter taste; bitterness
(kǔmìng) hard lot; bitter fate
(kǔyīn) affliction
(kǔjìng) grievance; dire straits
(kǔdàchóushēn) great bitterness, deep hatred (idiom); deeply ingrained long-standing resentment
(kǔhán) bitter cold
(kǔgōng) hard labor (in penal code); coolie
(kǔchāi) hard and unprofitable (job); poorly paid drudgery; arduous and unrewarding (undertaking)
(kǔchāishi) hard and unprofitable; drudgery; sweated labor
(kǔgàn) to work hard
(kǔyì) forced labor; corvée; penal servitude
(kǔdài) treat harshly
(kǔxīn) painstaking effort; to take a lot of trouble; laborious at pains
(kǔxīngūyì) to make painstaking efforts (idiom); after much trouble; to work hard at sth
(kǔxīnjīngyíng) to build up an enterprise through painstaking efforts
(kǔsī) to think hard; bitter thoughts; to pour out one's sufferings
(kǔsīmíngxiǎng) to consider from all angles (idiom); to think hard; to rack one's brains
(kǔmèn) depressed; dejected; feeling low
(kǔqíng) wretched situation; plight; wretched; miserable
(kǔnǎo) vexed; distressed
(kǔzhàn) bitter struggle; hard battle; arduous effort
(kǔxìngréngān) amygdalin
(kǔguǒ) lit. bitter fruit; fig. painful consequence
(kǔgēn) underlying cause of poverty
(kǔchǔ) suffering; misery; pain (esp. psychological)
(kǔliàn) chinaberry (Melia azedarach)
(kǔshuǐ) bitter water (e.g. mineral water containing sulfates); suffering; digestive fluids rising from stomach to the mouth; fig. bitter complaint
(kǔkuàng) wretched state; miserable plight
(kǔhuó) bitter work; sweated labor
(kǔhuór) erhua variant of 苦活, bitter work; sweated labor
(kǔhǎi) lit. sea of bitterness; abyss of worldly suffering (Buddhist term); depths of misery
(kǔhǎiwúbiānhuítóushìàn) The sea of bitterness has no bounds, turn your head to see the shore (idiom). Only Buddhist enlightenment can allow one to shed off the abyss of worldly suffering.; Repent and ye shall be saved!
(kǔhǎimángmáng) sea of bitterness is vast (idiom)
(kǔsè) bitter and astringent; pained; agonized
(kǔáo) to endure (years of suffering)
(kǔguā) bitter melon (bitter gourd, balsam pear, balsam apple, leprosy gourd, bitter cucumber)
(kǔguāliǎn) sour expression on one's face
(kǔgān) bitter sweet
(kǔtòng) pain; suffering
(kǔjìngānlái) bitterness finishes, sweetness begins (idiom); the hard times are over, the good times just beginning
(kǔzhú) bitter bamboo (Pleioblastus amarus)
(kǔxiào) to force a smile; a bitter laugh
(kǔròujì) the trick of injuring oneself to gain the enemy's confidence; CL:條|条[tiao2]
(kǔdǎn) gall bladder
(kǔài) wormwood; Artemisia absinthium
(kǔàijiǔ) absinthe (distilled anise-based liquor)
(kǔlíng) chinaberry (Melia azedarach)
(kǔjù) endive
(kǔkǔ) strenuously; persistently; hard; painful
(kǔkǔāiqiú) to entreat piteously; to implore
(kǔjú) endive
(kǔcàihuā) Bitter cauliflower, 1954 socialist realist novel by Feng Deying 馮德英|冯德英[Feng2 De2 ying1] loosely based on Maxim Gorky's Mother, made into a 1967 film by Li Ang
(kǔzhí) cutleaf ground-cherry; Physalis angulata
(kǔchu) suffering; distress
(kǔxíng) ascetic practice
(kǔxíngshúzuì) penance (to atone for a sin)
(kǔzhōng) painful embarrassment; predicament; difficulties
(kǔjiàn) to admonish strenuously
(kǔqù) wretched feelings (opposite: 樂趣|乐趣, delight)
(kǔdiédǎ) coup d'état (loanword)
(kǔjímièdào) the Four Noble Truths (Budd.), namely: all life is suffering 苦, the cause of suffering is desire 集, emancipation comes only by eliminating passions 滅|灭, the way 道 to emancipation is the Eight-fold Noble Way 八正道; also called 四諦|四谛
(kǔnàn) suffering
(kǔnànshēnzhòng) deep grief; extensive sorrow
(kǔtou) sufferings