刻 苦

kèkǔ

adjectiveHSK 7-9

“Hardworking” in Chinese is 刻苦 (kèkǔ).

Meaning

hardworking
assiduous

Example

他比您更刻苦。

He's even more hardworking than you are.

Example sentence from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0).

Characters

kèHSK 28 strokesquarter (hour)kǔHSK 38 strokesbitter

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