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, so it is one of the words worth learning early when you study Japanese.

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