Meanings
Noun
1. pain; anguish; suffering; distress; anxiety; worry; trouble; difficulty; hardship
2. duhkha (suffering)
Kanji used
suffering
Pitch accent
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Used in vocabulary (63 in total)
trouble; hardship; difficulty; anxiety; worry; concern
pain; agony; bitterness
hard fight; close game; struggle; tight contest
absurd; unreasonable; extreme; senseless; disorderly; chaotic
nonsensical; unreasonable; awfully; extremely; disorder; confusion
complaint; troubles; objection; grievance
suffering; distress; hardship; trial
pains; hard work; effort; trouble; labour; labor
bitterness; bitter taste
difficult situation; adverse circumstances; predicament; trouble; dilemma; distress
bitterness; bitter taste
penance; austerities; mortification; asceticism
easily; without effort
candid advice; frank advice; honest opinion; exhortation; harsh but honest advice
torture; pains (of hell)
to be bothered (by something); to suffer
labor; labour; toil; hardship
hardship; toil; trouble
anguish; (great) pain
absurd; unreasonable; extreme; senseless; disorderly; chaotic
pleasure and pain; joys and sorrows
self-supporting student; working student
toil; drudgery; penal servitude; imprisonment (with hard labour)
unremitting effort; dogged perseverance; unswerving loyalty
pain of sickness
life's struggles
working one's way through school; earning one's own school fees; studying under adversity; studying in harsh economic circumstances
hardships of poverty; serious poverty
desperation measure
triple handicap (esp. blindness, deafness and mutism)
bitter experience (ordeal)
the four kinds of suffering (birth, old age, disease, death)
laborious composition; struggling to compose a poem
terrible pain; terrible hardship; terrible suffering
suffering pain; experiencing hardship
to worry; to suffer
pain of being in debt
karmic suffering
double torture; double pain; double hardship; double whammy
human suffering
intense suffering
hardship and misfortune
inevitability of death (one of the four kinds of suffering); death pains; agony of death
intense heat
crumpled; wrinkled; crinkled; creased
the pain of separation from loved ones
after pleasure comes pain; there is no pleasure without pain; there is no rose without a thorn; take the good with the bad
agony of separation
magnesia; magnesium oxide
bitter tea; low-quality tea
no pain, no gain; no cross, no crown
suffering caused by the cold
coldest time of the year; bitter suffering
filled with numerous sufferings
one cannot have pleasure without pain; no pain, no gain
there's no pain without pleasure, and there's no pleasure without pain
numerous sufferings; various kinds of suffering
numerous sufferings; suffering of many people
numerous sufferings; suffering of many people
Examples (1 in total)
Life is hard.