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狭苦しい

せまくるしい
cramped
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胸が苦しい

exp
むねがくるしい
have a pain in one's chest
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胸苦しい

むなぐるしい
(feeling of) tightness in the chest
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業苦

ごうく
karmic suffering
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勤苦

きんく
toil and hardship
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苦灰石

くかいせき
dolomite
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苦は楽の種

exp
くはらくのたね
one cannot have pleasure without pain; no pain, no gain
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苦界に身を沈める

くがいにみをしずめる
to become a prostitute (sink into a brothel)
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苦渋

くじゅう
bitterness; mortification; difficulty in understanding; distress; affliction
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苦集滅道

くじゅうめつどう、くじゅめつどう、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)