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Entry Reading English Rank
労働 ろうどう (n) manual labor; toil; work 921
苦手 にがて (adj-na,n) poor (at); weak (in); dislike (of) 4476
苦戦 くせん (n) hard fight; close game 6627
労働省 ろうどうしょう Ministry of Labor 6697
苦しむ くるしむ (v5m) to suffer; to groan; to be worried 7115
苦労 くろう (adj-na,n,vs) troubles; hardships 7676
功労 こうろう (n) meritorious deed; services 8247
苦しめる くるしめる (v1) to torment; to harass; to inflict pain 9153
労働党 ろうどうとう (n) Labour Party 9205
苦情 くじょう (n) complaint; troubles; objection 9748
苦しい くるしい (adj) painful; difficult 10033
疲労 ひろう (n,vs) fatigue; weariness 10579
苦悩 くのう (n,vs) suffering; distress; affliction; anguish; agony; trouble 11054
勤労 きんろう (n) labor; exertion; diligent service 11742
苦痛 くつう (adj-na,n) pain; agony 12092
いたずき (n) pain; trouble 13336
ろう (n,vs) labor; toil; trouble; striving; putting (someone) to work; thanking (someone for their efforts); comforting 13336
労組 ろうくみ (n) (abbr) labor union 14784
労組 ろうそ (n) (abbr) labor union 14784
苦しみ くるしみ (n) pain; anguish; distress; suffering; hardship 15609
苦難 くなん (n) trial 16133
労災 ろうさい (n) workers' compensation insurance 16747
労力 ろうりょく (n) labour; effort; toil; trouble 16902
労務 ろうむ (n) labor; work; service 17279
労使 ろうし (n) labour and management 17564
苦境 くきょう (n) trouble; crisis; predicament 17612
労連 ろうれん (n) labour union 18205
就労 しゅうろう (n) actual work 18346
苦言 くげん (n) candid (frank) advice; exhortation 18701
過労 かろう (n) overwork; strain 19016
苦い にがい (adj) bitter 19016
苦慮 くりょ (n,vs) rack one's brains 20404
国労 こくろう National Railway Workers Union 20404
苦心 くしん (n,vs) pain; trouble; anxiety; diligence; hard work 21489
労農 ろうのう (n) workers and farmers 21530
苦味 くみ (n) bitterness; bitter taste 21615
苦味 にがみ (n) bitterness; bitter taste 21615
苦笑 くしょう (n,vs) bitter smile 21889
苦肉の策 くにくのさく (n) last resort; desperate measure taken under pressure of necessity 22057
労役 ろうえき (n) work; labor; toil 24915
苦闘 くとう (n,vs) agonizing 25918
苦労人 くろうにん (n) worldly-wise man 25918
動労 どうろう (n) National Railway Motive Power Union 26001
心労 しんろう (n) anxiety; worry; fear 26240
苦学 くがく (n,vs) paying one's own school expenses by working 26319
苦笑い にがわらい (n,vs) bitter smile 27241
重労働 じゅうろうどう (n) heavy labor; hard labor (in prison) 27617
滅茶苦茶 めちゃくちゃ (adj-na,n) (uk) absurd; unreasonable; excessive; messed up; spoiled; wreaked 28008
苦渋 くじゅう (n) bitterness; mortification; difficulty in understanding; distress; affliction 28487
苦行 くぎょう (n) penance; austerities; mortification 28780
苦楽 くらく (n) pleasure and pain; joys and sorrows 29086
無茶苦茶 むちゃくちゃ (adj-na,n) (uk) confused; jumbled; mixed up; unreasonable 29086
堅苦しい かたくるしい (adj) formal; strict; ceremonious; stiff 29410
堅苦しい かたぐるしい (adj) formal; strict; ceremonious; stiff 29410
見苦しい みぐるしい (adj) unsightly; ugly 29410
漁労 ぎょろう (n) fishing; fishery 29851
苦々しい にがにがしい (adj) unpleasant; disgusting; loathsome; shameful; scandalous 29851
重苦しい おもくるしい (adj) heavy; gloomy; awkward; cumbrous; oppressive; leaden 30433
労う ねぎらう (v5u) to thank for; for reward for 30552
生活苦 せいかつく (n) life's struggles 31224
労作 ろうさく (n) toil; labor; laborious task 31648
慰労 いろう (n,vs) recognition of services 31930
ご苦労 ごくろう (adj-na,int,n) (hon) trouble (I have put you through) 32501
苦杯 くはい (n) bitter experience (ordeal) 32501
四苦八苦 しくはっく (n,vs,exp) be in dire distress; hard put to it 32501
苦悶 くもん (n) anguish 32964
労苦 ろうく (n) labor; toil; hardship 33111
労務者 ろうむしゃ (n) laborer; workman 33111
苦し紛れ くるしまぎれ (adj-na,n) in desperation 33282
悪戦苦闘 あくせんくとう (n,vs) hard fighting 33462
暑苦しい あつくるしい (adj) sultry; sweltering 33636
息苦しい いきぐるしい (adj) choking; oppressive; suffocating 33830
博労 ばくろう (n) cattle or horse trader; good judge of horses or cattle 34034
勤労感謝の日 きんろうかんしゃのひ (n) Thanksgiving Day; November 23 34212
気苦労 きぐろう (n) worry; care; anxiety 35357
徒労 とろう (n) fruitless effort; abortive scheme 35577
苦汁 くじゅう (n) bitter experience 35778
苦汁 にがり (n) bittern; brine 35778
労相 ろうしょう (n) Labor Minister 36396
心苦しい こころぐるしい (adj) painful; be or feel sorry 37706
労政 ろうせい (n) labor administration 37706
一苦労 ひとくろう (n) a hard time; pains 38001
苦役 くえき (n) hard toil 38280
目茶苦茶 めちゃくちゃ (adj-na,n) (uk) absurd; unreasonable; excessive; messed up; spoiled; wreaked 38280
苦節 くせつ (n) unswerving determination 38588
労資 ろうし (n) capital and labor; capitalists and laborers 38588
不労所得 ふろうしょとく (n) unearned income 39571
辛苦 しんく (n) hardship; toil; trouble 39920
労賃 ろうちん (n) wages 39920
病苦 びょうく (n) pain of sickness 40263
苦界 くがい (n) (1) world of suffering (Buddhism); (2) life of prostitution 41039
艱難辛苦 かんなんしんく (n) trial and tribulation; hardships; privations; difficulties 41039
苦肉 くにく (n) desperation measure 41444
困苦 こんく (n) privation; hardship 41444
八苦 はっく (n) the eight pains (of Buddhism) 41444
ご苦労さん ごくろうさん (exp) I appreciate your efforts 41904
苦力 くうりい coolie 41904
炭労 たんろう Japan Coal Miners Union 41904
苦虫 にがむし (n) making a sour face (as if having consumed a bitter bug) 42342
苦労性 くろうしょう (adj-na,n) nervous temperament; worry habit; pessimistic nature 42342
中労委 ちゅうろうい (n) (abbr) Central Labor Relations Committee 42342
眼精疲労 がんせいひろう (n) eyestrain 42893
三重苦 さんじゅうく (n) triple handicap 43447
労音 ろうおん (n) Workers Music Council 43447
御苦労 ごくろう (adj-na,int,n) (hon) trouble (I have put you through) 44061
業苦 ごうく (n) karmic suffering 44709
狭苦しい せまくるしい (adj) cramped 45436
苦衷 くちゅう (n) distress 45436
取り越し苦労 とりこしぐろう (n) overanxiety 45436
貧苦 ひんく (n) hardship; serious poverty 45436
辛労 しんろう (n) hardships; toil; trouble 46248
忍苦 にんく (n) endurance; stoicism 46248
微苦笑 びくしょう (n) faint, ironic or bittersweet smile 46248
聞き苦しい ききぐるしい (adj) poor sound quality; unpleasant to hear 46248
愛別離苦 あいべつりく (n) (Buddhism) the pain of separation from loved ones 47205
刻苦 こっく (n) hard work 47205
寝苦しい ねぐるしい (adj) unable to sleep well 47205
政労 せいろう (abbr) government-labour (e.g. liaison meeting) 47205
足労 そくろう (n) trouble of going somewhere 47205
労り いたわり (n) trouble; service; labor; sympathy; illness; carefulness; attention 47205
ご苦労さま ごくろうさま (adj-na,exp,int,n) I appreciate your efforts 48294
苦り切る にがりきる (v5r) to look sour (disgusted) 48294
難行苦行 なんぎょうくぎょう (n) penance; hardship 48294
甘苦 かんく (n) sweetness and bitterness; joys and sorrows 49657
胸苦しい むなぐるしい (adj) (feeling of) tightness in the chest 49657
苦吟 くぎん (n,vs) laborious composition; struggling to compose a poem 49657
所労 しょろう (n) illness; fatigue 49657
痛苦 つうく (n) anguish; (great) pain 49657
不労 ふろう (n) unearned 49657
粒粒辛苦 りゅうりゅうしんく (n) toil and moil; working assiduously for; tireless hard work; assiduously; painstakingly 49657
艱苦 かんく (n) privation suffering 49657
ご苦労様 ごくろうさま (adj-na,n) Thank you very much for your.... 51560
慰労会 いろうかい party given in recognition of a person's services 51560
慰労金 いろうきん (n) bonus; reward for one's services 51560
移民労働者 いみんろうどうしゃ (n) immigrant worker 51560
逸を以て労を待つ いつをもってろうをまつ (exp) to wait for the enemy to tire at ease 51560
家事労働 かじろうどう (n) housework 51560
過労死 かろうし (col) death from overwork 51560
外部労働市場 がいぶろうどうしじょう (n) external labor market 51560
楽有れば苦有り らくあればくあり (exp) After pleasure comes pain 51560
季節労働 きせつろうどう seasonal labor 51560
季節労働者 きせつろうどうしゃ seasonal laborer 51560
共労者 きょうろうしゃ coworker 51560
強制労働 きょうせいろうどう forced labor 51560
胸が苦しい むねがくるしい have a pain in one's chest 51560
勤苦 きんく toil and hardship 51560
勤労意欲 きんろういよく (n) will to work 51560
勤労階級 きんろうかいきゅう salaried class; working class 51560
勤労者 きんろうしゃ (n) worker 51560
勤労者財産形成促進 きんろうしゃざいさんけいせいそく (workers) asset formation 51560