辛い
Kana: つらい
painful; hard to bear
Example sentence
失敗は彼にとって辛いです。
しっぱいはかれにとってつらいです。
The failure is painful for him.
What 辛い means
辛い (つらい) is a Japanese word meaning “painful; hard to bear”. It belongs to the Describing Words topic and appears at Level 3, so it is one of the words worth learning early when you study Japanese.