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吃苦头

chīkǔtou

to suffer

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

to suffer

02

to suffer for one's actions

03

to pay dearly

04

to burn one's fingers

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 吃苦头 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 吃苦头 appears in 3 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.

好奇会吃苦头的。hào qí huì chī kǔ tóu de。

Curiosity killed the cat.

我们上班时的情绪，就像坐过山车一样 ﹣ 老板脸上一现出不悦的神色，我们就要吃苦头；老板脸上有了笑容，我们才能松一口气。这样的工作，我不想再干下去了。wǒ men shàng bān shí de qíng xù， jiù xiàng zuò guò shān chē yī yàng ﹣ lǎo bǎn liǎn shàng yī xiàn chū bú yuè de shén sè， wǒ men jiù yào chī kǔ tóu； lǎo bǎn liǎn shàng yǒu le xiào róng， wǒ men cái néng sōng yì kǒu qì。 zhè yàng de gōng zuò， wǒ bù xiǎng zài gàn xià qù le。

I can't keep this up. It's an emotional roller coaster around here and all we have to do is look at the boss's face to know whether everybody is going to be happy or sad.

再做一次的话就会吃苦头的。zài zuò yī cì de huà jiù huì chī kǔ tóu de。

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 吃苦头.

Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 吃苦头.

Directly before

  • 会吃苦头2
  • 就要吃苦头1

Directly after

  • 吃苦头的2
ABOUT THIS ENTRY

Where this entry comes from

The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.

Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

COMMON QUESTIONS

About 吃苦头

What does 吃苦头 mean in Chinese?

吃苦头 (chīkǔtou) means to suffer.

How do you pronounce 吃苦头?

吃苦头 is pronounced chīkǔtou.

Is 吃苦头 an HSK word?

吃苦头 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.

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