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Entry Reading English Rank
時刻 じこく (n-adv,n-t) instant; time; moment 2711
彫刻 ちょうこく (n) carving; engraving; sculpture 4449
苦手 にがて (adj-na,n) poor (at); weak (in); dislike (of) 4476
勉強 べんきょう (n,vs) study; diligence; discount; reduction 4547
深刻 しんこく (adj-na,n) serious 5836
奨励 しょうれい (n) encouragement; promotion; message; address 6054
刻む きざむ (v5m) to mince; to carve; to engrave; to cut fine; to chop up; to hash; to chisel; to notch 6374
苦戦 くせん (n) hard fight; close game 6627
刻 きざ scratch 7021
刻 こく (n) time; carving; engraving; cutting 7021
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
復刻 ふっこく (n,vs) reissue of a facsimile version; striking a new print of a film 8463
苦しめる くるしめる (v1) to torment; to harass; to inflict pain 9153
苦情 くじょう (n) complaint; troubles; objection 9748
苦しい くるしい (adj) painful; difficult 10033
苦悩 くのう (n,vs) suffering; distress; affliction; anguish; agony; trouble 11054
励む はげむ (v5m) to be zealous; to brace oneself; to endeavour; to strive; to make an effort 11506
苦痛 くつう (adj-na,n) pain; agony 12092
励ます はげます (v5s) to encourage; to cheer; to raise (the voice) 12165
刻印 こくいん (n) carved seal 12638
一刻 いっこく (adj-na,n-adv,n-t) (1) a minute; a moment; an instant; (2) stubborn; hot-headed 13716
遅刻 ちこく (n,vs) lateness; late coming 14365
苦しみ くるしみ (n) pain; anguish; distress; suffering; hardship 15609
励起 れいき (n) (electrical) excitation 15925
苦難 くなん (n) trial 16133
激励 げきれい (n,vs) encouragement 16133
苦境 くきょう (n) trouble; crisis; predicament 17612
勉学 べんがく (n) study; pursuit of knowledge 18155
刻み きざみ (n) shredded tobacco; notch; nick 18183
苦言 くげん (n) candid (frank) advice; exhortation 18701
苦い にがい (adj) bitter 19016
勤勉 きんべん (adj-na,n) industry; diligence 19170
夕刻 ゆうこく (n-t) evening; evening hour 20360
苦慮 くりょ (n,vs) rack one's brains 20404
苦心 くしん (n,vs) pain; trouble; anxiety; diligence; hard work 21489
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
切り刻む きりきざむ (v5m) to hew; to chop up; to mangle; to mince 22165
励磁 れいじ (n) excitation 23520
即刻 そっこく (n-adv) immediately; at once; instantly 23799
篆刻 てんこく (n,vs) seal engraving 25491
苦闘 くとう (n,vs) agonizing 25918
苦労人 くろうにん (n) worldly-wise man 25918
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
小刻み こきざみ (adj-na,n) mincing; bit by bit 27801
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
刻々 こくこく (adv,n) moment by moment; hour by hour 29410
刻々 こっこく (adv,n) moment by moment; hour by hour 29410
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
生活苦 せいかつく (n) life's struggles 31224
定刻 ていこく (n) appointed time; timetable; schedule 31224
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
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
翻刻 ほんこく (n,vs) reprint 33830
励行 れいこう (n,vs) strict enforcement; carry out (regulations) 34034
漏刻 ろうこく (n) water clock 34580
励み はげみ (n) stimulus; encouragement; incentive 34761
精励 せいれい (n) diligence; industry 35139
気苦労 きぐろう (n) worry; care; anxiety 35357
苦汁 くじゅう (n) bitter experience 35778
苦汁 にがり (n) bittern; brine 35778
覆刻 ふっこく (n,vs) republishing; reissuing 35968
心苦しい こころぐるしい (adj) painful; be or feel sorry 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
刻み目 きざみめ (n) notch; nick; marks on a ruler 38588
陰刻 いんこく (n) white line 39227
辛苦 しんく (n) hardship; toil; trouble 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
励振 れいしん (n) excitation (drive) 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
刻み付ける きざみつける (v1) to engrave; to carve out 41904
督励 とくれい (n,vs) encouragement; urge 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
先刻 せんこく (n-adv,n-t) already; while ago 42342
奮励 ふんれい (n,vs) strenuous efforts 42342
刻みつける きざみつける (v1) to engrave; to carve out 43447
刻限 こくげん (n) time; appointed time 43447
刻字 こくじ (n) carving characters; carved characters 43447
三重苦 さんじゅうく (n) triple handicap 43447
御苦労 ごくろう (adj-na,int,n) (hon) trouble (I have put you through) 44061
時々刻々 じじこっこく (adv) from one minute to the next; from hour to hour 44061
勉励 べんれい (n) diligence 44061
業苦 ごうく (n) karmic suffering 44709
上刻 じょうこく (n) first third of a two-hour period 44709
狭苦しい せまくるしい (adj) cramped 45436
苦衷 くちゅう (n) distress 45436
後刻 ごこく (n-adv,n-t) afterwards 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
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
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
刻み煙草 きざみたばこ (n) shredded tobacco 48294
刻下 こっか (n-adv,n-t) the present 48294
難行苦行 なんぎょうくぎょう (n) penance; hardship 48294
一刻千金 いっこくせんきん (n) very valuable time 49657
印刻 いんこく (n) seal engraving 49657
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
重刻 じゅうこく (n) reprinting 49657
寸刻 すんこく (n) a moment 49657
痛苦 つうく (n) anguish; (great) pain 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
がり勉 がりべん (n) a drudge; a grind 51560
ご苦労様 ごくろうさま (adj-na,n) Thank you very much for your.... 51560
ギリシア彫刻 ギリシアちょうこく (n) Greek sculpture 51560
亥の刻 いのこく 10 o'clock in the evening 51560
一刻も早く いっこくもはやく immediately 51560
一刻を争う いっこくをあらそう (exp) to race against time 51560
印刻師 いんこくし seal engraver 51560
丑の刻 うしのこく two o'clock in the morning 51560
夏時刻 なつじこく (n) daylight-saving time 51560
俄勉強 にわかべんきょう cramming 51560
我利勉 がりべん (n) a drudge; a grind 51560