辛 苦

xīnkǔ

adjectiveverbHSK 5

“Exhausting” in Chinese is 辛苦 (xīnkǔ).

Meaning

exhausting
hard
tough

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arduous
to work hard
to go to a lot of trouble
hardship(s)

Example

大家辛苦了！

Good job, everyone!

Example sentence from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0).

Characters

xīnHSK 57 strokes(of taste) hot or pungent kǔHSK 38 strokesbitter

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