苦

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.

苦 character breakdown

古
gǔ = gu + Ø3
surname Gu
古
gǔ = gu + Ø3
ancient / old / paleo-
古 = 十 + 口 : Mnemonic symbol: at least on German maps, this character actually resembles a cloister.

Oh no! Gitta Giraffe (gu) found that the golden cross (十) broke off of the cloister (古) in the space station's living room (Ø3)! She skewers a mandarin (口) on top of the cloister so that she can skewer the broken off cross back on to fix it.
艹
cǎo = c + ao3
grass radical 草字頭兒|草字头儿[cao3 zi4 tou2 r5]
Artificial lawn. The King of Chu burns artificial lawn in the aorta.

Characters with 苦 as component

楛
kǔ = ku + Ø3
broken utensil
楛
hù = hu + Ø4
(tree)

Words with 苦

何
苦
why bother? / is it worth the trouble?
不
不
辞
辭
劳
勞
苦
苦
to spare no effort
不
不
辞
辭
辛
辛
苦
苦
to make nothing of hardships
倒
苦
水
to pour out one's grievances
备
備
尝
嘗
辛
辛
苦
苦
to have suffered all kinds of hardships (idiom)
八
苦
the eight distresses - birth, age, sickness, death, parting with what we love, meeting with what we hate, unattained aims, and all the ills of the five skandhas (Buddhism)
冤
苦
to treat (sb) unjustly / anguish caused by an injustice
不
不
胜
勝
其
其
苦
苦
unable to bear the pain (idiom)
二
遍
苦
second persecution
倒
倒
悬
懸
之
之
苦
苦
lit. the pain of being hanged upside down (idiom); fig. extremely critical situation / dire straits

Sentences with 苦

苦 currently does not appear in any sentence.