苦 — bitter/suffer

Grade 3 kanji · 8 strokes · on'yomi ku · kun'yomi kuru·shii.

Grass (艹) on old (古) — old bitterness that lingers like weeds.

Example words

• 苦しい — kurushii — painful
• 苦手 — nigate — weakness

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