三重苦

さんじゅうく

triple handicap

四重苦

よんじゅうく

four-fold hardship; quadruple whammy

二重苦

にじゅうく

double torture; double pain; double hardship; double whammy

重苦しい

おもくるしい

heavy, gloomy, awkward, cumbrous, oppressive, leaden

苦

く

duhkha (suffering)

四苦八苦

しくはっく

the four and eight kinds of suffering

苦学

くがく

paying one's own school expenses by working

苦吟

くぎん

laborious composition, struggling to compose a poem

苦界

くがい

life of prostitution

業苦

ごうく

karmic suffering

苦戦

くせん

hard fight, close game

苦無

くない

ninja throwing knives

苦杯

くはい

bitter experience (ordeal)

苦楽

くらく

pleasure and pain, joys and sorrows

八苦

はっく

death

苦熱

くねつ

intense heat

苦行

くぎょう

penance, austerities, mortification, asceticism

苦い

にがい

bitter

苦虫

にがむし

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