苦

Translingual

Han character

苦 (radical 140 艸+5, 11 strokes, cangjie input 廿十口 (TJR), four-corner 4460₄, composition ⿱艹古)

1. bitter
2. hardship, suffering

References

• KangXi: page 1023, character 16
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 30797
• Dae Jaweon: page 1482, character 13
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3186, character 2
• Unihan data for U+82E6

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Cantonese

Hanzi

苦 (Yale fu2)

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Japanese

Kanji

苦 (grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• On: く (ku)
• Kun: にがい (nigai), くるしい (kurushii), くるしむ (kurushimu)

Compounds

• 苦無 (くない, kunai): a kunai

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Korean

Hanja

苦 (hangeul 고, revised go, McCune-Reischauer ko, Yale ko)

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Mandarin

Pronunciation

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Hanzi

苦 (pinyin gǔ (gu3), kǔ (ku3), Wade-Giles ku³, k'u³)

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Vietnamese

Han character

苦 (khổ, khủ, cỏ, cô, khó)