| | bitter / hardship / pain / to suffer / to bring suffering to / painstakingly | HSK 4 |
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| | exhausting / hard / tough / arduous / to work hard / to go to a lot of trouble / hardship(s) | HSK 4 |
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| | pain / suffering / painful / CL: 個|个 | HSK 5 |
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| | difficult / hard / arduous | HSK 5 |
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| | hardworking / assiduous | HSK 5 |
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| | bitter and astringent / pained / agonized | HSK 6 |
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| | bitterness finishes, sweetness begins (idiom); the hard times are over, the good times just beginning | HSK 6 |
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| | suffering | |
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| | hardworking and enduring hardships (idiom) | |
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| | vexed / distressed | |
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| | painstakingly / with great trouble | |
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| | bitter work / hard toil / (loanword) coolie, unskilled Chinese laborer in colonial times | |
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| | deprivation / distressed / miserable | |
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| | to study diligently | |
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| | to bear hardships | |
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| | strenuously / persistently / hard / painful | |
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| | to suffer unspeakable misery / indescribably painful / hellish | |
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| | why bother? / is it worth the trouble? | |
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| | pain and difficulties / suffering (of the people) | |
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| | bitter cold | |
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| | to bury oneself in work (idiom); to be engrossed in work / to make an all-out effort / up to the neck in work | |
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| | to struggle arduously | |
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| | to train hard / to practice diligently / hard work / blood, sweat, and tears | |
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| | lit. sea of bitterness / abyss of worldly suffering (Buddhist term) / depths of misery | |
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| | bitter struggle / hard battle / arduous effort | |
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| | poverty-stricken / poor | |
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| | to toil / hard work | |
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| | to speak sarcastically / to make cutting remarks | |
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| | secret trouble / sorrow / difficulties | |
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| | bitter melon (bitter gourd, balsam pear, balsam apple, leprosy gourd, bitter cucumber) | |
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| | to suffer untold hardships (idiom); trials and tribulations / with difficulty / after some effort | |
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| | to study hard / assiduous | |
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| | impoverished / destitute | |
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| | to suffer hardship | |
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| | sour, sweet, bitter and spicy hot / fig. the joys and sorrows of life | |
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| | depressed / dejected / feeling low | |
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| | to suffer from (a disadvantage) | |
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| | to suffer every possible torment (idiom); bitter hardship / to bear one's cross | |
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| | to entreat piteously / to implore | |
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| | the trick of injuring oneself to gain the enemy's confidence / CL: 條|条 | |
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| | destitute but honest / poor and simple / spartan / austere | |
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| | to make nothing of hardships | |
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| | to build up an enterprise through painstaking efforts | |
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| | to ask for trouble (idiom) / to make a rod for one's own back | |
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| | to take a lot of trouble (idiom); painstaking / at the cost of a lot of effort | |
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| | toil / hard work | |
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| | forlorn / miserable | |
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| | to consider from all angles (idiom); to think hard / to rack one's brains | |
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| | to study hard / assiduous | |
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| | to grumble / to complain / grievance | |
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| | to have bitter digestive fluids rising to the mouth / fig. to complain bitterly / to pour out one's sufferings | |
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| | solitary and impoverished (idiom) | |
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| | to think hard / bitter thoughts / to pour out one's sufferings | |
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| | great bitterness, deep hatred (idiom); deeply ingrained long-standing resentment | |
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| | having unspeakable bitter suffering / (often used after 啞巴吃黃連|哑巴吃黄连) | |
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| | to spare no effort | |
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| | to work hard | |
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| | sufferings | |
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| | lit. bitter taste (cf good medicine tastes bitter 良藥苦口|良药苦口) / fig. earnestly (of warning, advice) | |
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| | shared delights and common hardships (idiom); to share life's joys and sorrows / for better or for worse | |
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| | to abandon suffering and obtain happiness (Buddhism) | |
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| | liquorice (Sophora flavescens), with roots used in TCM | |
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| | diligent / assiduous | |
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| | bitter water (e.g. mineral water containing sulfates) / suffering / digestive fluids rising from stomach to the mouth / fig. bitter complaint | |
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| | to force a smile / a bitter laugh | |
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| | to pour out one's grievances | |
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| | wormwood / Artemisia absinthium | |
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| | to look anxious (idiom) / to look miserable | |
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| | suffering / distress | |
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| | gall bladder | |
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| | hard lot / bitter fate / unfortunate | |
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| | lit. bitter fruit / fig. painful consequence | |
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| | good times and hardships / joys and tribulations / for better or for worse | |
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| | leading a plain, hardworking life (idiom) | |
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| | to consider from all angles (idiom); to think hard / to rack one's brains | |
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| | to ponder earnestly / to give a lot of thought to sth | |
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| | earnest and well-meaning advice (idiom); to persuade patiently | |
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| | to study diligently / to train assiduously | |
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| | good medicine tastes bitter (idiom); fig. frank criticism is hard to swallow | |
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| | to suffer / to suffer for one's actions / to pay dearly / to burn one's fingers | |
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| | to make painstaking efforts (idiom); after much trouble / to work hard at sth | |
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| | to make a hard living as unskilled laborer | |
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| | to whine about hardships / to complain of one's bitter lot / to complain / to grumble | |
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| | forced labor / corvée / penal servitude | |
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| | to be born under an ill star | |
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| | hard times | |
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| | endive | |
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| | to bring trouble on oneself | |
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| | bitter taste / bitterness | |
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| | painstaking effort / to take a lot of trouble / laborious at pains | |
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| | lit. bleak wind and icy rain (idiom) / fig. hardships / miserable circumstances | |
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| | absinthe (distilled anise-based liquor) | |
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| | anxiety / distress | |
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| | pain / suffering | |
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| | to sour / to turn sour / to curdle | |
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| | bitter bamboo (Pleioblastus amarus) | |
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| | to bear hardships and work hard (idiom); assiduous and long-suffering / hard-working and capable of overcoming adversity | |
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| | to find joy in sorrows (idiom); to enjoy sth in spite of one's suffering | |
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| | torture / corporal punishment (traditionally involving mutilation or amputation) | |
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| | hard work / laborious effort / painstaking work | |
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