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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

苦痛

kǔtòng

pain

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

pain

02

suffering

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 苦痛 actually appears in real sentences.

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

虽然虚伪、苦痛还有破碎的梦伴随着我,但这仍然是一个美丽的世界。suī rán xū wěi、 kǔ tòng hái yǒu pò suì de mèng bàn suí zhe wǒ, dàn zhè réng rán shì yí gè měi lì de shì jiè。

With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams; it is still a beautiful world.

要学会忍耐苦痛。yào xué huì rěn nài kǔ tòng。

No published English translation for this sentence.

记性好的,大概都被厚重的苦痛压死了;只有记性坏的,适者生存,还能欣然活着。jì xìng hǎo de, dà gài dōu bèi hòu zhòng de kǔ tòng yā sǐ le; zhǐ yǒu jì xìng huài de, shì zhě shēng cún, hái néng xīn rán huó zhe。

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 苦痛.

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

Directly before

  • 的苦痛1
  • 忍耐苦痛1

Directly after

  • 苦痛还有1
  • 苦痛压死1
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 苦痛

What does 苦痛 mean in Chinese?

苦痛 (kǔtòng) means pain.

How do you pronounce 苦痛?

苦痛 is pronounced kǔtòng.

Is 苦痛 an HSK word?

苦痛 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.

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