痛苦
Pinyin: tòng kǔ
suffering; painful
Example sentence
失败让他很痛苦。
Shībài ràng tā hěn tòngkǔ.
The failure caused him great pain.
What 痛苦 means
痛苦 (tòng kǔ) is a Chinese word meaning “suffering; painful”. It belongs to the Describing Words topic and appears at HSK 4, so it is one of the words worth learning early when you study Chinese.