苦

Vocabulary (12)

• 胸苦しい

  むなぐるしい

  (feeling of) tightness in the chest

• ご苦労さん

  ごくろうさん

  I appreciate your efforts

• 苦菜

  にがな

  Ixeris dentata (species of the daisy family)

• 高嶺苦菜

  たかねにがな

  Ixeris dentata var. alpicola (mountain flower in the dandelion family)

• 苦海浄土

  くかいじょうど

  Paradise in the Sea of Sorrow: Our Minamata Disease (1960 semi-fictional novel by Michiko Ishimure)

• 眩草

  くらら

  Sophora flavescens

• 苦集滅道

  くしゅめつどう

  Suffering, Source of Suffering Desire, The Cessation of Suffering, The Way Leading to the Cessation of Suffering (The Four Noble Truths of Buddhism)

• 抜苦与楽

  ばっくよらく

  a Buddha or Bodhisattva taking away suffering and conferring peace

• 苦心談

  くしんだん

  account of the hardships one has encountered

• 苦渋の決断

  くじゅうのけつだん

  agonizing decision

• 離苦

  りく

  agony of separation

• 一切皆苦

  いっさいかいく

  all things are causes of sufferings