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What does 艰苦 mean?

猫头鹰māotóuyīngowl

艰苦 jiānkǔ

arduous; difficult; hard

Its characters

  1. 艰 jiān difficult
  2. 苦 kǔ hard

In a sentence

那里的生活条件很艰苦。 Living conditions there are very hard.

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