苦

苦 — suffering, trial, worry

JLPT: JLPT N3
Strokes: 8
Taught in: School year 3
Frequency: #623 most common

Readings

On'yomi came with the character from Chinese; kun'yomi is the native Japanese word it was borrowed for. A dot marks where okurigana takes over, a hyphen marks a prefix or suffix position.

On'yomi: く ku
Kun'yomi: くる.しい kuru.shii

-ぐる.しい -guru.shii

くる.しむ kuru.shimu

くる.しめる kuru.shimeru

にが.い niga.i

にが.る niga.ru

Example words for this kanji are being written.

Words that use 苦

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