1. 苦しい くるしい

   painful, difficult

2. 苦しみ くるしみ

   pain, anguish, distress, suffering, hardship

3. 苦しめる くるしめる

   to torment, to harass, to inflict pain

4. 苦になる くになる

   to be bothered (by something), to suffer

5. 憂苦 ゆうく

   trouble, distress, sorrow

6. 苦衷 くちゅう

   distress

7. 苦労 くろう

   (vs) troubles, hardships

8. ご苦労さま ごくろうさま

   (id) I appreciate your efforts

9. 苦味 くみ

   bitter taste

10. 固苦しい かたくるしい

    formal, strict, ceremonious

11. 苦土 くど

    this painful world, magnesia

12. 苦塩 にがり

    bittern, brine

13. 苦学 くがく

    (vs) paying one's own school expenses by working

14. 苦心 くしん

    (vs) pain, trouble, anxiety, diligence, hard work

15. 忍苦 にんく

    endurance, stoicism

16. 苦悩 くのう

    (vs) suffering, distress, affliction, anguish, agony, trouble

17. 苦手である にがてである

    to be weak in, to be poor at, to be bad at

18. 苦楽 くらく

    pleasure & pain, joys & sorrows

19. 苦渋 くじゅう

    bitterness, mortification, difficulty in understanding, distress, affliction

20. 狭苦しい せまくるしい

    cramped

21. 苦笑い にがわらい

    (vs) bitter smile

22. 息苦しい いきぐるしい

    choking, oppressive, suffocating

23. 艱苦 かんく

    privation suffering

24. 苦苦しい にがにがしい

    unpleasant, disgusting, loathsome, shameful, scandalous

25. 苦苦しい にがにがしい

    unpleasant, disgusting, loathsome, shameful, scandalous

26. 苦慮 くりょ

    (vs) rack one's brains

27. 苦行 くぎょう

    penance, austerities, mortification

28. 苦悶 くもん

    anguish

29. 苦難 くなん

    trial

30. 離苦 りく

    agony of separation

Kanji Character : 苦
Kuten Encoding : 2276
SJIS Encoding : 366c
Unicode Encoding : 82e6
Old Nelson Index : 3928
Radical Number : 140
Frequency Ranking : 548
Gakken Index : 597
Grade Level : 3
Halpern Index : 2243
Heisig Index : 225
Henshall Index : 264
New Nelson Index : 5009
O'Neil Index : 687
Stroke Count : 8
Spahn & Hadamitzky Kanji Dictionary Index : 3k5.24
Spahn & Hadamitzky Radical Strokes : 3
Spahn & Hadamitzky Other Strokes : 5
Spahn & Hadamitzky Character ID : k
Spahn & Hadamitzky kanji Number : 24
Spahn & Hadamitzky Kanji & Kana Index : 545
SKIP Code : 2-3-5
De Roo Code : 1977
Four Corner Code : 4460.4
Korean reading : go
Pinyin reading : ku3
Morohashi Index String : 30797P
Morohashi Volume and Page String : 9.0584
Morohashi Index Number : 30797
Morohashi Page : 584
Morohashi Volume : 9
Morohashi entry is Prime : true
Dictionary Codes

R1977