Pinyin: kǔ

bitter

Example sentence

这个药有点苦。

Zhège yào yǒudiǎn kǔ.

This medicine is a bit bitter.

What 苦 means

(kǔ) is a Chinese word meaning “bitter”. 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.

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