Refers to severe difficulties, adversity, or painful trials, often in a serious or formal context.
He overcame many hardships and succeeded.
We need the wisdom to survive times of adversity.
He endured a long period of hardship and finally succeeded.
The family worked together and overcame their hardship.
She walked a path of hardship but never gave up on her dream.
苦労 focuses on the effort and toil of dealing with hardship, whereas 苦難 refers to the hardship or trial itself.
試練 highlights a hardship as a test of character or faith, while 苦難 simply names the painful ordeal itself.
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.
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.
苦難 is a plain, abstract word for suffering or hardship, while 荒波 uses a vivid sea metaphor to express the same idea.
苦難 emphasizes the suffering or hardship itself, whereas 多難 emphasizes the sheer number of difficulties encountered.
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.
苦難 stresses prolonged hardship or suffering one endures, while 災難 usually refers to a single unfortunate incident.
安楽 means ease and comfort, the direct opposite of the pain and struggle described by 苦難.
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'.
That country has been struck by hardship in the form of natural disasters for years.