苦

trouble

poor (at)

complaint

pain

hard fight

bitter

difficult situation

(mental) agony

pain

racking one's brains

bitterness

suffering

to torment

painful

nonsensical

candid advice

absurd

last resort

pains

bitterness

hard fight

labor

bitter cup

hardships of life (esp. due to lack of money)

thank you (for your hard work)

pleasure and pain

worldly-wise man

bitter smile

unsightly

being in dire distress

bitter smile

hard fighting

choking

unpleasant

a hard time

coolie

the eight kinds of suffering (birth, old age, disease, death, parting from loved ones, meeting disliked ones, not getting what one seeks, pains of the five skandha)

dread

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

to look sour

human suffering

Good Friday

world of suffering

magnesia

triple handicap (esp. blindness, deafness and mutism)

double torture

ascetic

suffering pain

inevitability of death (one of the four kinds of suffering)

penance

karmic suffering

four-fold hardship

sea of suffering

strenuous pursuit of learning under difficulties

toil

Sophora flavescens

unable to sleep well

the pain of not getting what one seeks

labor pains

intense suffering

ninja throwing knives

account of the hardships one has encountered

self-supporting student

bitter tincture

to writhe in agony

pain

no problem

bitterish

to worry

to be bothered (by something)

to feel bitter

bitterness

easily

sternly handsome

to suffer

pain

slightly bitter (taste)

filthy

worry

the Seven Misfortunes and Eight Pains

nervous temperament

to worry

to cause someone trouble

I appreciate your efforts

trouble (I have put you through)

to share (life's) joys and sorrows (with)

to be in difficulties

to be unable to understand

Japanese timber bamboo (Phyllostachys bambusoides)

after pleasure comes pain

no pain, no gain

bitter-tasting bug

unpleasant to hear

numerous sufferings

heavy (feeling, etc.)

torture

hardship

penance

to cause one's parents distress

Arduous March

awareness that one is not good at something

bitter experience

painful

ombudsman

pain of being in debt

to be distressed with debts

bitter principle

privation

lame excuse

hellish pain

one cannot have pleasure without pain

hard work

numerous sufferings

stratagem for causing a rift in the enemy camp by using a seditious plot

all things are causes of sufferings

intense heat

danger past, God forgotten

to go through all sorts of hardships

agony of separation

bitter medicine

bitter medicine

a Buddha or Bodhisattva taking away suffering and conferring peace

the most helpful advice may be difficult to listen to

the most helpful advice may be difficult to listen to

magnesite

hurting oneself (to trick an adversary)

toil and hardship

patripassianism (theology)

sour (wry) face

many hardships

mafic

spare no effort while you are young

spare no effort while you are young

agonizing decision

harm zone

Paradise in the Sea of Sorrow: Our Minamata Disease (1960 semi-fictional novel by Michiko Ishimure)

to give candid advice

working one's way through school

vinegar

(out of) desperation

grievance machinery

the pain of separation from loved ones

to drink a bitter cup

dolomite lime

anguish

best regards

unremitting effort

formal

(feeling of) tightness in the chest

have a pain in one's chest