苦く
Meanings
Noun
1. pain; anguish; suffering; distress; anxiety; worry; trouble; difficulty; hardship
Since I started it because I like it, it doesn't feel like a hardship.
2. duhkha (suffering)
Kanji used
suffering
Pitch accent
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Used in vocabulary (68 in total)
trouble; hardship; difficulty; anxiety; worry; concern
pain; agony; suffering; distress; torment
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
difficult situation; adverse circumstances; predicament; trouble; dilemma; distress
penance; austerities; mortification; difficult work; strenuous task
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
hardships of life (esp. due to lack of money); 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
hurting oneself (to trick an adversary)
triple handicap (esp. blindness, deafness and mutism)
the four kinds of suffering (birth, old age, disease, death)
laborious composition; struggling to compose a poem
to worry (about); to be terribly worried (about); to be very concerned (about); to be sick with worry
terrible pain; terrible hardship; terrible suffering
suffering pain; experiencing hardship
double torture; double pain; double hardship; double whammy
pain of being in debt
bitter cup; bitter experience; bitter defeat; ordeal
karmic suffering
intense suffering
human suffering
inevitability of death (one of the four kinds of suffering); death pains; agony of death
hardship and misfortune
intense heat
(mental) agony; anguish; suffering; distress
after pleasure comes pain; there is no pleasure without pain; there is no rose without a thorn; take the good with the bad
crumpled; wrinkled; crinkled; creased
the pain of separation from loved ones
truth of suffering
bitterness; bitter taste
no pain, no gain; no cross, no crown
bitter medicine
bitter tea; low-quality tea
bitter cup; bitter experience; bitter defeat; ordeal
the pain of separation from loved ones
suffering caused by the cold
agony of separation
magnesia; magnesium oxide
coldest time of the year; bitter suffering
filled with numerous sufferings
bitter cup; bitter experience; bitter defeat; ordeal
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; suffering of many people
numerous sufferings; suffering of many people
numerous sufferings; various kinds of suffering
Examples (4 in total)
I don't particularly mind it.
Life is hard.
I don't mind being alone.