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

苦
- 古
  - 十
    - 一
    - 丨
  - 口
- 艹

gǔ = gu + Ø3

surname Gu

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.

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

kǔ = ku + Ø3

broken utensil

hù = hu + Ø4

(tree)

Words with 苦

to take a lot of trouble (idiom); painstaking / at the cost of a lot of effort

pain and difficulties / suffering (of the people)

good times and hardships / joys and tribulations / for better or for worse

to complain without stopping (idiom); to bitch endlessly / incessant grievances

destitute but honest / poor and simple / spartan / austere

lit. bleak wind and icy rain (idiom) / fig. hardships / miserable circumstances

a blood soaked and hard-fought struggle (idiom)

to ponder earnestly / to give a lot of thought to sth

chloropicrin

pains (of illness) / sufferings (esp. in Buddhism)

Sentences with 苦

苦 currently does not appear in any sentence.