離苦

りく はなれく

agony of separation

離別

りべつ

separation, divorce

別離

べつり

parting, separation

遠距離恋愛

えんきょりれんあい

long distance relationship

苦

く

duhkha (suffering)

愛

あい

beloved, dear

四苦八苦

しくはっく

the four and eight kinds of suffering

愛愛しい

あいあいしい

lovely, charming, sociable

離

り

li (one of the trigrams of the I Ching: fire, south)

苦虫

にがむし

making a sour face (as if having consumed a bitter bug)

苦節

くせつ

unswerving determination

苦吟

くぎん

laborious composition, struggling to compose a poem

苦界

くがい

life of prostitution

苦行

くぎょう

penance, austerities, mortification, asceticism

苦熱

くねつ

intense heat

業苦

ごうく

karmic suffering

苦戦

くせん

hard fight, close game

苦学

くがく

paying one's own school expenses by working

苦杯

くはい

bitter experience (ordeal)