| 苦い | にがい | bitter |
| 苦々しい
| にがにがしい | (adj)
unpleasant/disgusting/loathsome/shameful/scandalous/ |
| 苦い | にがい | (adj) bitter/(P)/ |
| 苦い経験 | にがいけいけん
| bitter experience/ |
| 苦い薬 | にがいくすり | bitter medicine/ |
| 苦
さ | にがさ | bitterness/bitter taste/ |
| 苦しい | くるしい | (adj) painful/difficult/(P)/ |
| 苦しい懐 | くるしいふところ | tight budget/ |
| 苦しい
言い訳 | くるしいいいわけ
| lame (poor) excuse/ |
| 苦しい時の神頼み | くるしいときのかみだのみ | Danger past, God forgotten/ |
| 苦しがる | くるしがる | (v5r) to suffer/to complain of a pain/ |
| 苦しみ | くるしみ | (n)
pain/anguish/distress/suffering/hardship/(P)/ |
| 苦しむ | くるしむ | (v5m) to suffer/to groan/to be worried/(P)/ |
| 苦しめる | くるしめる | (v1) to torment/to harass/to inflict
pain/(P)/ |
| 苦し紛れ | くるしまぎれ | (adj-na,n) in desperation/ |
| 苦にする | くにする | (vs) to worry/ |
| 苦にな
る | くになる | (v5) to
be bothered (by something)/to suffer/ |
| 苦も
無く | くもなく | (adv) easily/without effort/ |
| 苦り顔 | にがりがお | sour (wry) face/ |
| 苦
り切る | にがりきる | (v5r) to look sour (disgusted)/ |
| 苦る | にがる | (v5r) to feel bitter/to scowl/(P)/ |
| 苦塩 | にがり | (n) bittern/brine/ |
| 苦灰石 | くかいせき
| (n) dolomite/ |
| 苦界 | くがい | (n) (1) world of suffering (Buddhism)/(2) life of
prostitution/ |
| 苦界に身を沈める | くがいにみをしずめる | (exp) to become a prostitute (sink into a
brothel)/ |
| 苦学 | くがく | (n,vs) paying one's own school expenses by
working/ |
| 苦学生 | くがくせい
| a working (self-supporting)
student/ |
| 苦楽 | くらく | (n) pleasure and pain/joys and sorrows/ |
| 苦寒 | くかん | (n) coldest time of the year/bitter suffering/ |
| 苦境 | くきょう | (n) trouble/crisis/predicament/(P)/ |
| 苦吟 | くぎん | (n,vs) laborious composition/struggling to compose a
poem/ |
| 苦苦しい | にがにがしい | (adj)
unpleasant/disgusting/loathsome/shameful/scandalous/ |
| 苦言 | くげん | (n) candid (frank) advice/exhortation/ |
| 苦行 | くぎょう | (n) penance/austerities/mortification/ |
| 苦行者 | くぎょうしゃ
| an ascetic/ |
| 苦手 | にがて | (adj-na,n) poor (at)/weak (in)/dislike
(of)/(P)/ |
| 苦手である | にがてである | (v5) to be weak in/to be poor at/to be bad
at/ |
| 苦汁 | くじゅう | (n) bitter experience/ |
| 苦汁 | にがり | (n) bittern/brine/ |
| 苦渋 | くじゅう | (n) bitterness/mortification/difficulty in
understanding/distress/affliction/ |
| 苦笑 | くしょう | (n,vs) bitter smile/(P)/ |
| 苦笑い | にがわらい | (n,vs) bitter smile/(P)/ |
| 苦情 | くじょう | (n) complaint/troubles/objection/(P)/ |
| 苦情処理機関 | くじょうしょりきかん | grievance machinery/complaints department/ |
| 苦心 | くしん | (n,vs) pain/trouble/anxiety/diligence/hard
work/(P)/ |
| 苦心を買われる | くしんをかわれる
| (exp) to have one's labor
appreciated/ |
| 苦心惨憺 | くしんさんたん
| (n) taking great pains/ |
| 苦心談 | くしんだん
| account of the hardships one has
encountered/ |
| 苦節 | くせつ | (n) unswerving determination/ |
| 苦戦 | くせん | (n) hard fight/close game/ |
Japanese - English dictionary courtesy of Jim Breen.
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