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苦

Level IV of XX on the frequency path

Frequency rank 455 / 2,608

Suffering

On’yomi
く
Kun’yomi
くる、にが
Radical
艸 Grass (Kangxi 140)

Frequent enough that you will keep running into it once you read past headlines.

More common than 済 (Come To An End), less common than 助 (Help).

Flowers (艹) bloom on top of something old (古) and rotten — the stench of old flowers is pure suffering.

In words

苦い にがい bitterN4
苦しむ くるしむ to suffer,to groan,to be worriedN3
苦しい くるしい painful,difficultN3

苦 is rank 455 of 2,608 in published Japanese.

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