Keyword
suffering
Info
FrequencyTop 200-300
Type
Kyōiku (3rd grade) 
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KankenLevel 8
Heisig239
Readings
(46%)
くる
(28%)
にが
(19%)
ぐる
(4%)
くっ
(1%)
Composed of
blades of grass
old
Mnemonic

These old blades of grass are suffering as they haven't been watered in ages.

Used in vocabulary (251 in total)
painful; difficult; distressing; (psychologically) difficult; straitened (circumstances); tight (financial situation)
trouble; hardship; difficulty; anxiety; worry; concern
to suffer; to groan; to be worried
poor (at); weak (in); not very good (at); not one's cup of tea; not one's favorite
pain; agony; bitterness
pain; anguish; distress; suffering; hardship
bitter smile; wry smile; strained laugh; sarcastic laugh
bitter smile; wry smile; forced smile; strained laugh
to torment; to pain; to inflict (physical) pain; to harass; to cause (emotional) pain; to afflict
trouble (I have put you through); (your) hard work; thank you for your hard work; I appreciate your efforts
choking; suffocating; stifling; oppressive; heavy
hard fight; close game; struggle; tight contest
(mental) agony; anguish; suffering; distress
heavy (feeling, etc.); gloomy (weather, etc.); oppressive (atmosphere, etc.); stifling; strained
unsightly; ugly; unseemly; indecent; deplorable; disgraceful
pain; anguish; suffering; duhkha (suffering)
unpleasant; disgusting; loathsome; shameful; scandalous
nonsensical; unreasonable; awfully; extremely; disorder; confusion
painful; being sorry; feeling sorry
absurd; unreasonable; extreme; senseless; disorderly; chaotic
thank you for your hard work; I appreciate your efforts
formal; strict; ceremonious; stiff
complaint; troubles; objection; grievance
thank you for your hard work; I appreciate your efforts
sultry; sweltering; stuffy; uncomfortably hot-looking (clothing, etc.); stuffy-looking
suffering; distress; hardship; trial
I appreciate your efforts
bitterness; distress; pain; bitterness and astringency
pains; hard work; effort; trouble; labour; labor
a hard time; pains
bitterness; bitter taste
difficult situation; adverse circumstances; predicament; trouble; dilemma; distress
(out of) desperation; (as a) last resort; (driven by) pain
bitter-tasting bug
penance; austerities; mortification; asceticism
bitterness; bitter taste
awareness that somebody will be hard to deal with; awareness that one is not good at something; (feeling) not up to doing something
being in dire distress; being hard put to it; the four and eight kinds of suffering
to be unable to understand; to baffle one's understanding; to be beyond one's comprehension
easily; without effort
worry; care; anxiety; mental exhaustion
to give candid advice; to give harsh but honest advice; to admonish
faint, ironic or bittersweet smile
sour (expression); (lit.) as if having swallowed a bitter bug
hard fighting; hard struggle; fighting against heavy odds
to be bothered (by something); to suffer
filthy; squalid; dirty; foul; sordid
candid advice; frank advice; honest opinion; exhortation; harsh but honest advice
have a pain in one's chest
last resort; desperate measure taken under pressure of necessity
torture; pains (of hell)
slightly bitter (taste); bittersweet (memory, experience, etc.)
trouble (I have put you through); (your) hard work; thank you for your hard work; I appreciate your efforts
unable to sleep well
to writhe in agony
overanxiety; needless worry
racking one's brains; worrying oneself; being anxious
worldly-wise man
labor; labour; toil; hardship
lame excuse; poor excuse
dread; horror; hatred
hard fight; difficult struggle
cries of pain
to share (life's) joys and sorrows (with); to share the good and the bad (with); to stick together through thick and thin
hardship; toil; trouble
no problem; no objection; it doesn't matter
a hard time; pains
trial and tribulation; hardships; privations; difficulties
(out of) desperation; (as a) last resort; (driven by) pain
to be in difficulties; to be in trouble; to be in a difficult situation
(feeling of) tightness in the chest
nervous temperament; worry habit; pessimistic nature; pessimism
pleasure and pain; joys and sorrows
anguish; (great) pain
difficult to hear; unpleasant to hear
ninja throwing knives; mediaeval farming tool for digging, prying, etc.
to feel bitter; to scowl
absurd; unreasonable; extreme; senseless; disorderly; chaotic
sour (expression); (lit.) as if having swallowed a bitter bug
thank you for your hard work; I appreciate your efforts
to look sour (disgusted)
self-supporting student; working student
unremitting effort; dogged perseverance; unswerving loyalty
toil; drudgery; penal servitude; imprisonment (with hard labour)
easily; without effort
distress; anguish; mental suffering
sour (expression); (lit.) as if having swallowed a bitter bug
life's struggles
pain of sickness
bitter medicine
bitter liquid; (fig.) bitter experience
thank you for your hard work; I appreciate your efforts
to suffer from hunger
formal; strict; ceremonious; stiff
hardships of poverty; serious poverty
torture; pains (of hell)
privation; hardship
working one's way through school; earning one's own school fees; studying under adversity; studying in harsh economic circumstances
world of suffering; life of prostitution
to relieve a person's pain
triple handicap (esp. blindness, deafness and mutism)
privation suffering
best regards; please remember me; please treat me favorably (favourably); please take care of
hellish pain; suffering; distress; agony
bitter experience (ordeal)
to have a bitter experience
I appreciate your efforts
sweetness and bitterness; joys and sorrows
formal; strict; ceremonious; stiff
sternly handsome; manly
laborious composition; struggling to compose a poem
overanxiety; needless worry
terrible pain; terrible hardship; terrible suffering
to have a bitter experience
trouble; distress; sorrow
overanxiety; needless worry
sultry; sweltering; stuffy; uncomfortably hot-looking (clothing, etc.); stuffy-looking
to have a bitter experience
endurance; stoicism
desperation measure
hard work
to worry; to suffer
the most helpful advice may be difficult to listen to; (lit.) good medicine tastes bitter
pain of being in debt
double torture; double pain; double hardship; double whammy
the Seven Misfortunes and Eight Pains; a series of disasters
account of the hardships one has encountered
karmic suffering
human suffering
being arduous; working diligently enduring hardships
suffering pain; experiencing hardship
slightly bitter (taste); bittersweet (memory, experience, etc.)
sour (expression); (lit.) as if having swallowed a bitter bug
toil and moil; working assiduously for; tireless hard work; painstaking labor (labour)
intense suffering
overanxiety; needless worry
sternly handsome; manly
hardship and misfortune
to have a bitter experience
intense heat
stratagem for causing a rift in the enemy camp by using a seditious plot
bitterish; bitter
bitter melon (Momordica charantia); bitter gourd
inevitability of death (one of the four kinds of suffering); death pains; agony of death
to have a bitter experience
bittern; concentrated solution of salts (esp. magnesium chloride) left over after the crystallization of seawater or brine
crumpled; wrinkled; crinkled; creased
difficult situation; adverse circumstances; predicament; trouble; dilemma; distress
unpleasant; disgusting; loathsome; shameful; scandalous
being arduous; working diligently enduring hardships; making a strenuous effort
after pleasure comes pain; there is no pleasure without pain; there is no rose without a thorn; take the good with the bad
to suffer from hunger
to be distressed with debts
the pain of separation from loved ones
sea of suffering; human realm
the four kinds of suffering (birth, old age, disease, death)
affliction; suffering
sternly handsome; manly
strenuous pursuit of learning under difficulties
toil and moil; working assiduously for; tireless hard work; painstaking labor (labour)
trials and tribulations; adversities; suffering hardships and troubles
difficult to hear; unpleasant to hear
truth of suffering
the eight kinds of suffering (birth, old age, disease, death, parting from loved ones, meeting disliked ones, not getting what one seeks, pains of the five skandha)
sour (wry) face
the pain of not getting what one seeks
hardships and privations
to writhe in agony
agony of separation
Ixeris dentata (species of the daisy family)
magnesia; magnesium oxide
wormwood (Artemisia absinthium); absinthium; absinthe wormwood; absinthe
jostling; being jostled; being mobbed; crumpling
to have a bitter experience
no pain, no gain; no cross, no crown
bitter tea; low-quality tea
Suffering, Source of Suffering Desire, The Cessation of Suffering, The Way Leading to the Cessation of Suffering (The Four Noble Truths of Buddhism)
the pain of meeting people one dislikes
hardships and privations
trials and tribulations; adversities; suffering hardships and troubles
Arduous March; North Korean famine of the late 1990s
suffering caused by the cold
Japanese timber bamboo (Phyllostachys bambsoides); giant timber bamboo; madake; Simon bamboo (Pleioblastus simonii)
worrying oneself (about); being anxious (about); fidgeting (about)
all things are causes of sufferings
being arduous; working diligently enduring hardships; making a strenuous effort
the pain brought on by the five skandha
coldest time of the year; bitter suffering
to cause one's parents distress
to go through all sorts of hardships
filled with numerous sufferings
best regards; please remember me; please treat me favorably (favourably); please take care of
Sophora flavescens
overanxiety; needless worry
trouble; hardship; difficulty; anxiety; worry; concern
kousso (African flowering plant, Hagenia abyssinica); kosso; cusso; koso; brayera
best regards; please remember me; please treat me favorably (favourably); please take care of
bittern; concentrated solution of salts (esp. magnesium chloride) left over after the crystallization of seawater or brine
after pleasure comes pain; there is no pleasure without pain; there is no rose without a thorn; take the good with the bad
bitter tincture
starry handfish (Halieutaea stellata)
no pain, no gain; no cross, no crown
kousso (vermifuge made from pistillate brayera flowers); kosso; cusso; koso
sow thistle (Sonchus oleraceus); milk thistle
horned melon (Cucumis metuliferus); kiwano; African horned cucumber; jelly melon
toil and hardship
bitterness; bitter taste
grievance machinery; complaints department
bitter principle
to suffer; to complain of a pain
hardships and joys; tasting the sweets and bitters of life; (having seen much of life) being well-versed in the ways of the world
putting up a good fight against some odds
one cannot have pleasure without pain; no pain, no gain
there's no pain without pleasure, and there's no pleasure without pain
there's no pain without pleasure, and there's no pleasure without pain
spare no effort while you are young; heavy work in youth is quiet rest in old age
spare no effort while you are young; heavy work in youth is quiet rest in old age
a Buddha or Bodhisattva taking away suffering and conferring peace
pain; anguish; distress; suffering; hardship
cold-suffering bird; kankuchō; imaginary bird said to live in the Himalayas who forgets the cold of night as soon as morning comes; (lazy) person who is poor at practicing asceticism; person unlikely to reach satori
spare no effort while you are young; heavy work in youth is quiet rest in old age
spare no effort while you are young; heavy work in youth is quiet rest in old age
patripassianism (theology)
numerous sufferings; suffering of many people
harm zone; people who will suffer the negative effects of new public facilities, infrastructure, etc. (e.g. pollution)
numerous sufferings; various kinds of suffering
creeping lettuce (Ixeris stolonifera)
Ixeris dentata var. alpicola (mountain flower in the dandelion family)
Examples (200 in total)
They had to endure a hard life.
Are you afraid of the dark?
I'm not good at meeting people.