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痛苦

tòng kǔ

Old HSK 5 HSK 3.0 level 5 2-character word Measure word 个

痛苦 (tòng kǔ) means "pain, suffering". It is an HSK 3.0 level 5 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

What 痛苦 means

1. pain
2. suffering
3. painful

The characters in 痛苦

• 痛tòngache; pain; sorrow
• 苦kǔbitter; hardship; pain

Example sentences

• 我知道你有痛苦。
  We know you're in pain.
• 被拒绝是痛苦的。
  Being rejected is painful.
• 痛苦令人无法忍受。
  The pain is unbearable.
• 你现在感到痛苦吗？
  Are you in pain now?
• 药物缓解了他的痛苦。
  Yàowù huǎnjiě le tā de tòngkǔ.
  The medicine decreased his pain.
• 这名士兵痛苦地呻吟。
  Zhè míngshì bīng tòngkǔ de shēnyín.
  The soldier groaned with pain.

Words containing 痛苦

• 万分痛苦wàn fēn tòng kǔexcruciating

Where 痛苦 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Mood, Atmosphere & Emotion (HSK 5), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 5 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read tòng kǔ correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.