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bitter; hard

HSK 4Epic

What does 苦 mean?

(pinyin: ) means bitter; hard. It belongs to the official HSK 4 vocabulary (upper intermediate), among the most frequent words of everyday Chinese.

Example with 苦

Life is sometimes bitter.

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