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苦手 にがて (adj-na,n) poor (at); weak (in); dislike (of) 4476
渋滞 じゅうたい (n,vs) congestion (e.g. traffic); delay; stagnation 5305
渋る しぶる (v5r) to hesitate; to be reluctant; to have loose painful bowel movement 5924
苦戦 くせん (n) hard fight; close game 6627
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
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
渋 しぶ (n) astringent (puckery) juice (of unripe persimmons) 10707
苦悩 くのう (n,vs) suffering; distress; affliction; anguish; agony; trouble 11054
苦痛 くつう (adj-na,n) pain; agony 12092
苦しみ くるしみ (n) pain; anguish; distress; suffering; hardship 15609
苦難 くなん (n) trial 16133
渋い しぶい (adj) (1) tasteful (clothing); "cool"; an aura of refined masculinity; (2) astringent; sullen; bitter (taste); (3) grim; quiet; (4) sober; stingy 16181
苦境 くきょう (n) trouble; crisis; predicament 17612
苦言 くげん (n) candid (frank) advice; exhortation 18701
苦い にがい (adj) bitter 19016
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
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
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
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
柿渋 かきしぶ (n) (astringent) persimmon juice 32076
難渋 なんじゅう (adj-na,n) retardation 32216
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
渋柿 しぶがき (n) sour and puckery persimmon 34761
気苦労 きぐろう (n) worry; care; anxiety 35357
晦渋 かいじゅう (adj-na,n) ambiguous; obscure; equivocal 35778
苦汁 くじゅう (n) bitter experience 35778
苦汁 にがり (n) bittern; brine 35778
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
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
渋々 しぶしぶ (adv) reluctantly; unwillingly 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
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
三重苦 さんじゅうく (n) triple handicap 43447
渋紙 しぶがみ (n) paper treated with astringent persimmon juice 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
渋茶 しぶちゃ (n) strong or bitter (green) tea 45436
茶渋 ちゃしぶ (n) tea incrustation 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
渋り腹 しぶりばら (n) bowel pains; painful loose bowels 47205
渋皮 しぶかわ (n) inner, astringent skin (of a chestnut) 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
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
渋色 しぶいろ (n) tan (color) 49657
渋面 しぶつら (n) grimace; sullen face 49657
渋面 しぶづら (n) grimace; sullen face 49657
渋面 じゅうめん (n) grimace; sullen face 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
ご苦労様 ごくろうさま (adj-na,n) Thank you very much for your.... 51560
やり方が渋い やりかたがしぶい stingy ways 51560
下渋り したしぶり (stock market) steadiness 51560
楽有れば苦有り らくあればくあり (exp) After pleasure comes pain 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
苦い経験 にがいけいけん bitter experience 51560
苦い薬 にがいくすり bitter medicine 51560
苦さ にがさ bitterness; bitter taste 51560
苦しい懐 くるしいふところ tight budget 51560
苦しい言い訳 くるしいいいわけ lame (poor) excuse 51560
苦しい時の神頼み くるしいときのかみだのみ Danger past, God forgotten 51560
苦しがる くるしがる (v5r) to suffer; to complain of a pain 51560
苦にする くにする (vs) to worry 51560
苦になる くになる (exp) to be bothered (by something); to suffer 51560
苦も無く くもなく (adv) easily; without effort 51560
苦り顔 にがりがお sour (wry) face 51560
苦る にがる (v5r) to feel bitter; to scowl 51560
苦塩 にがり (n) bittern; brine 51560
苦灰石 くかいせき (n) dolomite 51560
苦界に身を沈める くがいにみをしずめる (exp) to become a prostitute (sink into a brothel) 51560
苦学生 くがくせい a working (self-supporting) student 51560
苦寒 くかん (n) coldest time of the year; bitter suffering 51560
苦苦しい にがにがしい (adj) unpleasant; disgusting; loathsome; shameful; scandalous 51560
苦行者 くぎょうしゃ an ascetic 51560
苦手である にがてである (v5r) to be weak in; to be poor at; to be bad at 51560
苦情処理機関 くじょうしょりきかん grievance machinery; complaints department 51560
苦心を買われる くしんをかわれる (exp) to have one's labor appreciated 51560
苦心惨憺 くしんさんたん (n) taking great pains 51560
苦心談 くしんだん account of the hardships one has encountered 51560
苦痛を和らげる くつうをやわらげる (exp) to relieve a person's pain 51560
苦土 くど (n) this painful world; magnesia 51560
苦熱 くねつ (n) intense heat 51560
苦味素 くみそ bitter principle 51560
苦味走った にがみばしった sternly handsome 51560
苦艾 にがよもぎ (n) wormwood 51560
言い渋る いいしぶる (v5r) to hesitate to say 51560
固苦しい かたくるしい (adj) formal; strict; ceremonious; stiff 51560
固苦しい かたぐるしい (adj) formal; strict; ceremonious; stiff 51560
御苦労さん ごくろうさん (exp) I appreciate your efforts 51560
御苦労様 ごくろうさま (adj-na,n) Thank you very much for your.... 51560
交通渋滞 こうつうじゅうたい traffic congestion 51560
刻苦勉励 こっくべんれい (n) be arduous; work diligently enduring hardships 51560
七難八苦 しちなんはっく (Buddhism) the Seven Misfortunes and Eight Pains; a series of disasters 51560
疾苦 しっく (n) affliction; suffering 51560
借金で苦しむ しゃっきんでくるしむ to be distressed with debts 51560
渋い顔をしている しぶいかおをしている (exp) to be grim-faced; to look sullen 51560