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苦 (く): trouble, worry, difficulty — Japanese vocabulary

苦 is read く and means "trouble, worry, difficulty". JLPT N3 word with pitch accent and an example sentence.

苦

Reading
く · ku
Translation
trouble, worry, difficulty
Level
JLPT N3
Pitch accent
くが

Example

彼女は苦もなくその詩を暗記した。

かのじょはくもなくそのしをあんきした。

She had no difficulty in learning the poem by heart.

Kanji in this word

  • 苦 — painful, bitter

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