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艰苦

jiānkǔ
adjectiveHSK 5

“Difficult” in Chinese is 艰苦 (jiānkǔ).

Meaning

  • difficult
  • hard
  • arduous

Example

生活很艰苦。

Life has been very hard.

Example sentence from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0).

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