艰苦

Pinyin: jiānkǔ

difficult; hard; arduous

🏮 Chinese HSK 5 adjective

Example sentence

生活很艰苦。

Shēnghuó hěn jiānkǔ.

Life has been very hard.

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What 艰苦 means

艰苦 (jiānkǔ) is a Chinese word meaning “difficult; hard; arduous”. It appears in the HSK 5 collection.

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Words and levels: HSK Examination Syllabus (2025), Center for Language Education and Cooperation · meanings: CC-CEDICT · example sentences: Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR) · Dictionary-derived data: CC BY-SA 4.0.

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