吃苦

to bear hardships

Characters and words in 吃苦

to eat / to consume / to eat at (a cafeteria etc) / to eradicate / to destroy / to absorb / to suffer / to stammer (Taiwan pr. for this sense is [ji2])

吃 = 乞 + 口 : Charlie Chaplin and the beggar are floating in front of the space station. Charlie Chaplin is very hungry and begs the beggar to hand over the beggar's mandarin.

吃

喫

chi̅ = ch + Ø1

variant of 吃[chi1]

吃 = 乞 + 口 : Charlie Chaplin and the beggar are floating in front of the space station. Charlie Chaplin is very hungry and begs the beggar to hand over the beggar's mandarin.

苦

kǔ = ku + Ø3

bitter / hardship / pain / to suffer / to bring suffering to / painstakingly

苦 = 艹 + 古 : 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.