吃苦

Chinese

		eat; eradicate; destroy eat; eradicate; destroy; receive; stammer	bitter; intensely; miserable bitter; intensely; miserable; painful
trad. (吃苦)		吃	苦
simp. #(吃苦)		吃	苦
Literally: “to eat bitterness”.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): chīkǔ

  (Zhuyin): ㄔ ㄎㄨˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): hek³ fu²

• Gan (Wiktionary): qiah⁶ ku³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: chīkǔ
    • Zhuyin: ㄔ ㄎㄨˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: chihkǔ
    • Wade–Giles: chʻih¹-kʻu³
    • Yale: chr̄-kǔ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chykuu
    • Palladius: чику (čiku)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʰʐ̩⁵⁵ kʰu²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: hek³ fu²
    • Yale: hek fú
    • Cantonese Pinyin: hek⁸ fu²
    • Guangdong Romanization: hég³ fu²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /hɛːk̚³ fuː³⁵/
• Gan
  • (Nanchang)
    • Wiktionary: qiah⁶ ku³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕʰiaʔ⁵ kʰu²¹³/

Verb

吃⫽苦 (verb-object)

1. to endure hardship; to suffer

   只要一家人能團聚，受多少罪，吃多少苦，我都不怕。 [MSC, trad.]
   只要一家人能团聚，受多少罪，吃多少苦，我都不怕。 [MSC, simp.]

   Zhǐyào yījiārén néng tuánjù, shòu duōshǎo zuì, chī duōshǎo kǔ, wǒ dōu bùpà. [Pinyin]

   As long as the family can be reunited, I am willing to endure any kind of hardship that comes my way.

Synonyms

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• 受罪 (shòuzuì)
• 受苦 (shòukǔ)
• 遭罪 (zāozuì)
• 食苦 (Hokkien)

Derived terms

• 吃苦耐勞 / 吃苦耐劳 (chīkǔnàiláo)