苦く難なん

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Meanings

Refers to severe difficulties, adversity, or painful trials, often in a serious or formal context.

苦く難なんに耐たえるto endure hardship
彼かれは長ながい苦く難なんに耐たえて、ついに成せい功こうした。
He endured a long period of hardship and finally succeeded.
苦く難なんを乗のり越こえるto overcome hardship
家か族ぞくで力ちからを合あわせて苦く難なんを乗のり越こえた。
The family worked together and overcame their hardship.
苦く難なんに見み舞まわれるto be struck by hardship
その国くには長なが年ねん、自し然ぜん災さい害がいという苦く難なんに見み舞まわれてきた。
That country has been struck by hardship in the form of natural disasters for years.
苦く難なんの道みちa path of hardship
彼かの女じょは苦く難なんの道みちを歩あゆみながらも、夢ゆめを諦あきらめなかった。
She walked a path of hardship but never gave up on her dream.

困こん難なんN3
困難 is a general word for difficulty or trouble, while 苦難 specifically emphasizes painful suffering and severe trials.
苦く労ろうN3
苦労 focuses on the effort and toil of dealing with hardship, whereas 苦難 refers to the hardship or trial itself.
試し練れん
試練 highlights a hardship as a test of character or faith, while 苦難 simply names the painful ordeal itself.
苦くるしみN2
苦しみ is the everyday word for pain or suffering felt by a person, while 苦難 is a more formal term for the hardship or trial causing it.

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受じゅ難なん
苦難 refers to general hardship or trials in life, while 受難 stresses passively enduring a specific severe ordeal, such as persecution or the Passion of Christ.
荒あら波なみ
苦難 is a plain, abstract word for suffering or hardship, while 荒波 uses a vivid sea metaphor to express the same idea.
多た難なん
苦難 emphasizes the suffering or hardship itself, whereas 多難 emphasizes the sheer number of difficulties encountered.
辛しん苦く
苦難 and 辛苦 are both literary words for suffering, but 苦難 leans toward external misfortune while 辛苦 emphasizes the personal endurance of hardship.
苦く渋じゅう
苦難 refers to hardship or trials one goes through, while 苦渋 focuses on the bitter emotional taste of anguish itself rather than the hardship's events.
災さい難なんN2
苦難 stresses prolonged hardship or suffering one endures, while 災難 usually refers to a single unfortunate incident.

安あん楽らく
安楽 means ease and comfort, the direct opposite of the pain and struggle described by 苦難.

苦く悩のうN1
苦悩 refers to inner mental anguish or worry, while 苦難 refers to external hardship or trials one must endure.

Compound of 苦 (ku, 'pain, suffering') and 難 (nan, 'difficulty, calamity'). The combination straightforwardly yields 'hardship, suffering'.