く
Meanings
Noun
1. pain; anguish; suffering; distress; anxiety; worry; trouble; difficulty; hardship
2. duhkha (suffering)
Alt. forms
Pitch accent
く
Used in vocabulary (61 in total)
suffering; distress; hardship; trial
trouble; hardship; difficulty; anxiety; worry; concern
to worry
(mental) agony; anguish; suffering; distress
anguish
complaint; troubles; objection; grievance
labor; labour; toil; hardship
hard fight; close game; struggle; tight contest
pains; hard work; effort; trouble; labour; labor
to be bothered (by something); to suffer
bitter cup; bitter experience; bitter defeat; ordeal
easily; without effort
hardship; toil; trouble
pain; agony; suffering; distress; torment
penance; austerities; mortification; difficult work; strenuous task
karmic suffering
candid advice; frank advice; honest opinion; exhortation; harsh but honest advice
working one's way through school; earning one's own school fees; studying under adversity; studying in harsh economic circumstances
intense suffering
difficult situation; adverse circumstances; predicament; trouble; dilemma; distress
laborious composition; struggling to compose a poem
intense heat
anguish; (great) pain
pleasure and pain; joys and sorrows
terrible pain; terrible hardship; terrible suffering
hardships of poverty; serious poverty
triple handicap (esp. blindness, deafness and mutism)
double torture; double pain; double hardship; double whammy
torture; pains (of hell)
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
to worry (about); to be terribly worried (about); to be very concerned (about); to be sick with worry
suffering pain; experiencing hardship
hurting oneself (to trick an adversary)
pain of being in debt
human suffering
many hardships
hardship and misfortune
inevitability of death (one of the four kinds of suffering); death pains; agony of death
the pain of separation from loved ones
after pleasure comes pain; there is no pleasure without pain; there is no rose without a thorn; take the good with the bad
the four kinds of suffering (birth, old age, disease, death)
truth of suffering
bitterness; bitter taste
no pain, no gain; no cross, no crown
bitter tea; low-quality tea
bitter medicine
suffering caused by the cold
magnesia; magnesium oxide
agony of separation
coldest time of the year; bitter suffering
filled with numerous sufferings
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 (1 in total)
Life is hard.