苦
Tags
- Kyōiku kanji
- Kanji that Japanese students should learn in elementary school #kyoiku
- Jōyō kanji
- Kanji considered of common use by the Japanese Ministry of Education #joyo
- 3rd grade kanji
- Kanji learned in third grade (elementary school) #grade-3
- 8 strokes
- Kanji with 8 strokes #strokes-8
- JLPT N3 kanji
- JLPT N3 kanji: Intermediate Level #jlpt3k
Reading
- On'yomi
- ク
- Kun'yomi
- くる.しい-ぐる.しいくる.しむくる.しめるにが.いにが.る
- Chinese (pinyin)
- ku3
- Korean (hangul)
- 고
- Korean (romanized)
- go
- Vietnamese
- Khổ
- Kantenji (braille kanji)
- ⢓⠼
Meaning
- suffering, trial, worry, hardship, feel bitter, scowl
- souffrir, peine, affliction, souci, amer, renfrogné
- sofrimento, experiência, preocupar, dificuldade, sentir- se amargo, tristeza
- sufrimiento, pena, doloroso, penoso, trabajoso, amargo
Stroke order
Components in kanji 苦
Similar kanji
Antonyms
Popular words containing this kanji
- trouble, hardship, difficulty, labour, labor, toil, pains
- complaint, troubles, objection, grievance
- poor (at), weak (in), not very good (at)
- bitter
- pain, agony, suffering, distress, torment
Extended information
Frequency 623
KANJIDIC Project
640 "Modern Reader's Japanese-English Character Dictionary", by Andrew Nelson (now published as the "Classic" Nelson)
3928 "The New Nelson Japanese-English Character Dictionary", by John Haig
5009 "New Japanese-English Character Dictionary", by Jack Halpern
2243 "Kanji Learners Dictionary" (Kodansha) by Jack Halpern
1433 "Remembering The Kanji" by James Heisig
225 "A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage" (Gakken)
597 "Japanese Names", by P.G. O'Neill
687 "Essential Kanji" by .GP. O'Neill
264 "Daikanwajiten" by Morohashi
30797P:9:584 "A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters" by Kenneth G. Henshall
264 "Kanji and Kana" by Spahn and Hadamitzky
545 "Kanji and Kana" by Spahn and Hadamitzky (2011 edition)
554 "A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese" by Florence Sakade
197 Japanese Kanji Flashcards, by Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki (Series 1)
864 "A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese" 3rd edition, by Henshall, Seeley and De Groot
283 Tuttle Kanji Cards, by Alexander Kask
295 "The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power" by Dale Crowley
344 "Kanji in Context" by Nishiguchi and Kono
342 "Japanese For Busy People" vols I-III, published by the AJLT. The codes are the
volume.chapter
0 The "Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide"
646 Codes from Yves Maniette's "Les Kanjis dans la tete" French adaptation of Heisig
230 "Remembering The Kanji, 6th Ed." by James Heisig
239 "Kodansha Kanji Dictionary", (2nd Ed. of the NJECD) by Jack Halpern
2789 "Kanji Learners Dictionary" (Kodansha), 2nd edition (2013) by Jack Halpern
1932
Halpern's SKIP (System of Kanji Indexing by Patterns) code
2-3-5 The descriptor codes for The Kanji Dictionary (Tuttle1996) by Spahn and Hadamitzky
3k5.24 The "Four Corner" code for the kanji. This is a code invented by Wang Chen in 1928
4460.4 The codes developed by the late Father Joseph De Roo, and published in his book "2001 Kanji" (Bonjinsha)
1977
JIS X 0208-1997 - kuten coding
nn-nn
1-22-76 Decimal representation of the UTF16 character
33510