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苦しい

くるしい

Readings

くるしい

Meanings

  1. 1.
    adj-ipainful; difficult; tough; hard
  2. 2.
    adj-idistressing; (psychologically) difficult; stressful; awkward (e.g. position)
  3. 3.
    adj-istraitened (circumstances); tight (financial situation); needy; struggling
  4. 4.
    adj-istrained (interpretation, explanation, etc.); lame (e.g. excuse); forced (e.g. smile); far-fetched
  5. 5.
    suf, adj-ihard to do; unpleasant

Kanji breakdown

苦
N48 strokesGrade 3

Example sentences

苦しい、やめろ。

It's so painful. Stop it!

彼は過去の苦しい生活を黙想した。

He meditated on his past life of suffering.

彼の家族はかなり生活が苦しい。

His family is rather badly off.

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painful; difficult; distressing; (psychologically) difficult; straitened (circumstances); tight (financial situation)

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