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辛苦

xīn kǔ

Old HSK 4 HSK 3.0 level 4 2-character word

辛苦 (xīn kǔ) means "hard work; laborious". It is an HSK 3.0 level 4 word, and was HSK 4 in the old six-level list.

What 辛苦 means

1. exhausting
2. hard
3. tough
4. arduous
5. to work hard
6. to go to a lot of trouble
7. hardship(s)

The characters in 辛苦

• 辛xīn(of taste) hot or pungent; hard; laborious
• 苦kǔbitter; hardship; pain

Example sentences

• 辛苦啦！
  Good work!
• 大家辛苦了！
  Good job, everyone!
• 做教师很辛苦。
  Being a teacher is very hard work.
• 学习英语很辛苦。
  Learning English is hard work.
• 没有谁比你们辛苦。
  No one is more hardworking than you all.
• 他们工作的很辛苦。
  They work really hard.

Words containing 辛苦

• 不辞辛苦bù cí xīn kǔto make nothing of hardships
• 备尝辛苦bèi cháng xīn kǔ(idiom) to have suffered all kinds of hardships

Where 辛苦 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Work tasks & management (HSK 4), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 4 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read xīn kǔ correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.