苦い
Kana: にがい
bitter
Example sentence
この薬は少し苦いです。
このくすりはすこしにがいです。
This medicine is a little bitter.
What 苦い means
苦い (にがい) is a Japanese word meaning “bitter”. It belongs to the Describing Words topic and appears at Level 2 (and again in Level 4), so it is one of the words worth learning early when you study Japanese.