刻苦

hardworking / assiduous

Characters and words in 刻苦

quarter (hour) / moment / to carve / to engrave / to cut / oppressive / classifier for short time intervals

= + : Mnemonic symbol: an engraver.

The boar cannot believe it when it meets Karl Marx in the elevator's bathroom! Bewildered it asks for an autograph but has nothing except for a kitchen knife and an engraver. It takes Karl Marx a quarter of an hour to engrave his message in the kitchen knife: "Dear boar, keep on fighting capitalism! Yours, Karl."
bitter / hardship / pain / to suffer / to bring suffering to / painstakingly

= + : Karl Koala decided to repent for his sins and retreated into a cloister inside the space station. There he leads a very simple life full of hardship, e.g. he gave up on eucalyptus and just eats very bitter artificial lawn.

Words with 刻苦

assiduous / taking great pains
to bear hardships and work hard (idiom); assiduous and long-suffering / hard-working and capable of overcoming adversity

Sentences with 刻苦

刻苦 currently does not appear in any sentence.