Suffering in Chinese
suffering · HSK 5
痛苦
- 痛 pain
- 苦 bitter
他忍受着巨大的痛苦。 He is enduring great suffering.
Other ways to say suffering
More words with 痛 or 苦
How do you say suffering in Chinese?
Suffering in Chinese is 痛苦 (tòng kǔ). You can also say 苦 (kǔ), 罪 (zuì).
Which word should I use?
Start with the first one: it is the easiest on the HSK list. The others say it too, often in a more formal way or for a narrower sense; each one’s page has real sentences that show how it is used.
Where do these words come from?
Our own dictionary’s meanings for the official HSK word list. A word is shown for an English word when that is one of its first meanings; the easiest word whose first meaning it is comes first.
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