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困苦欠乏

こんくけつぼう
hardships and privations
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刻苦勉励

こっくべんれい
being arduous; working diligently enduring hardships
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聞き苦しい

聞苦しい
ききぐるしい
difficult to hear; unpleasant to hear
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大の苦手

exp
だいのにがて
dread; horror; hatred
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痛苦

つうく
anguish; (great) pain
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塗炭の苦しみ

とたんのくるしみ
misery; distress
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難行苦行

なんぎょうくぎょう
penance; hardship
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忍苦

にんく
endurance; stoicism
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八苦

はっく
the eight kinds of suffering (birth, old age, disease, death, parting from loved ones, meeting disliked ones, not getting what one seeks, pains of the five skandha)
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反間苦肉

はんかんくにく
stratagem for causing a rift in the enemy camp by using a seditious plot