四し苦く

noun

the four kinds of suffering (birth, old age, disease, death)

Buddhist term referring to the four fundamental sufferings inherent in existence: birth, aging, sickness, and death. Often encountered in the phrase 四苦八苦.

• 仏ぶっ教きょうでは、生しょう老ろう病びょう死しを四し苦くという。

  In Buddhism, birth, old age, sickness, and death are called the four kinds of suffering.

• 四し苦く八はっ苦くしながらも、彼かれはプロジェクトを完かん成せいさせた。

  Though he went through great hardships, he completed the project.