- 苦
- bitter
- 味苦
- taste bitter
- 苦
- hardship
- 苦
- suffering
- 苦日子
- a hard time
- 苦
- cause sb. to suffer
- 苦
- painstakingly
- 苦苦哀求
- keep on begging piteously
- 苦练
- keep on practising painstakingly
- 吃苦
- bear hardships
- 吃苦耐劳
- bear hardships and stand hard work
- 愁苦
- anxiety
- 愁苦
- distress
- 愁苦
- sadness
- 甘苦
- joys and sorrows
- 甘苦
- weal and woe
- 与群众同甘苦
- stand by the people in weal and woe
- 与群众同甘苦
- share with the masses both prosperity and adversity
- 甘苦
- hardships
- 甘苦
- straits
- 甘苦
- grievance
- 创作的甘苦
- hardships of literary creation
- 创作的甘苦
- difficulties of creative writing
- 孤苦
- alone and miserable
- 孤苦伶仃
- alone and uncared for
- 孤苦伶仃
- lonely and helpless
- 寒苦
- poverty-stricken
- 何苦
- why bother
- 何苦
- why take the trouble
- 疾苦
- sufferings
- 疾苦
- hardships
- 关心群众的疾苦
- be concerned about the sufferings of the masses
- 坚苦
- hardship
- 坚苦卓绝
- overcome untold difficulties with surpassing bravery
- 坚苦卓绝
- showing the utmost fortitude
- 艰苦
- hard and arduous;hard and bitter
- 艰苦奋斗
- struggle arduously
- 叫苦
- complain of hardship
- 叫苦
- groan inwardly
- 叫苦连天
- keep on pouring out one's hard lot
- 叫苦连天
- make a series of complaints about one's grievance
- 刻苦
- hardworking
- 刻苦
- painstaking
- 刻苦钻研
- make an assiduous study of sth.
- 刻苦
- simple and thrifty
- 生活刻苦
- live a simple and thrifty life
- 苦楚
- misery
- 苦楚
- sufferings
- 苦楚
- bitterness
- 苦工
- hard work [or labour]
- 苦工
- coolie
- 苦工
- unskilled labourer
- 苦功
- painstaking effort
- 苦果
- bitter fruit
- 自食苦果
- eat the bitter fruit of one's own making
- 苦海
- abyss of misery
- 苦海
- endless sufferings
- 脱离苦海
- free oneself from the abyss of misery
- 苦力
- coolie
- 苦闷
- depressed
- 苦闷
- distressed
- 苦闷
- gloomy
- 精神苦闷
- be mentally depressed
- 苦难
- misery
- 苦难
- suffering
- 苦难
- hardship
- 受尽苦难
- suffer all kinds of hardships