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Stroke order
苦 is written in 8 strokes.
- 苦
Senses
- bitter
- hardship
- pain
- to suffer
- to bring suffering to
- painstakingly
Example sentences
- 这杯咖啡太苦了。Zhè bēi kāfēi tài kǔ le.This cup of coffee is too bitter.
- 他小时候的日子过得很苦。Tā xiǎoshíhou de rìzi guò de hěn kǔ.His childhood days were very hard.
Related words
苦 is pronounced kǔ and means “ขม”. You will meet it in HSK 4, a band of the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi — the standard test of Chinese proficiency. Most learners can pick 苦 out of a list long before they can reach for it unprompted, and the gap between those two closes only with repeated recall. LexiTrail schedules the next sighting from how well you did on the last.