疾苦

Chinese

		sickness; disease; hate sickness; disease; hate; envy	bitter; intensely; miserable bitter; intensely; miserable; painful
trad. (疾苦)		疾	苦
simp. #(疾苦)		疾	苦

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): jíkǔ

  (Zhuyin): ㄐㄧˊ ㄎㄨˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zat⁶ fu²
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): chi̍t-khó͘ / che̍k-khó͘

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: jíkǔ
    • Zhuyin: ㄐㄧˊ ㄎㄨˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jíkǔ
    • Wade–Giles: chi²-kʻu³
    • Yale: jí-kǔ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jyikuu
    • Palladius: цзику (cziku)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕi³⁵ kʰu²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: zat⁶ fu²
    • Yale: jaht fú
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzat⁹ fu²
    • Guangdong Romanization: zed⁶ fu²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sɐt̚² fuː³⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chi̍t-khó͘
    • Tâi-lô: tsi̍t-khóo
    • Phofsit Daibuun: cidqor
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡sit̚⁴⁻³² kʰɔ⁴¹/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡sit̚²⁴⁻² kʰɔ⁵⁵⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡sit̚¹²¹⁻²¹ kʰɔ⁵³/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Taipei): /t͡sit̚⁴⁻³² kʰɔ⁵³/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: che̍k-khó͘
    • Tâi-lô: tsi̍k-khóo
    • Phofsit Daibuun: zegqor
    • IPA (Xiamen): /t͡siɪk̚⁴⁻³² kʰɔ⁵³/

Noun

疾苦

1. sufferings (of people); hardships; pain and difficulties

Synonyms

• 痛楚 (tòngchǔ)
• 痛苦 (tòngkǔ)
• 苦楚 (kǔchǔ)
• 苦水 (kǔshuǐ) (figurative)
• 苦處／苦处 (kǔchù)
• 苦難／苦难 (kǔnàn)
• 隱痛／隐痛 (yǐntòng)