고통
Romanisation: gotong
suffering; painful
Example sentence
그는 큰 고통을 느꼈어요.
geuneun keun gotongeul neukkyeosseoyo.
He felt great suffering.
What 고통 means
고통 (gotong) is a Korean word meaning “suffering; painful”. It belongs to the Describing Words topic and appears at Level 4, so it is one of the words worth learning early when you study Korean.