吃苦

to bear hardships

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])

variant of 吃[chi1]

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

to suffer / to suffer for one's actions / to pay dearly / to burn one's fingers

hardworking and enduring hardships (idiom)

A small hole not plugged will make you suffer a big hole (idiom); a stitch in time saves nine

a small hole not plugged will give you grief when it gets bigger (idiom) / a stitch in time saves nine