exhausting; hard; tough; arduous; to work hard; to go to a lot of trouble; hardship(s)

bitter; hardship; pain; to suffer; to bring suffering to; painstakingly

to suffer hardship

difficult; hard; arduous

to speak sarcastically; to make cutting remarks; also pr. [wa1 ku5]

strenuously; persistently; hard; painful

painstakingly; with great trouble

why bother?; is it worth the trouble?

hardworking; assiduous

to bear hardships

deprivation; distressed; miserable

to suffer untold hardships (idiom); trials and tribulations; with difficulty; after some effort

to grumble; to complain; grievance

shared delights and common hardships (idiom); to share life's joys and sorrows; for better or for worse

impoverished; destitute

the eight distresses - birth, age, sickness, death, parting with what we love, meeting with what we hate, unattained aims, and all the ills of the five skandhas (Buddhism)

to treat (sb) unjustly; anguish caused by an injustice

bleak; miserable

to toil; hard work

hardworking; assiduous

to whine about hardships; to complain of one's bitter lot; to complain; to grumble

to be born under an ill star

forlorn; miserable

anxiety; distress

destitute but honest; poor and simple; spartan; austere

good times and hardships; joys and tribulations; for better or for worse

pain and difficulties; suffering (of the people)

pains (of illness); sufferings (esp. in Buddhism)

poverty-stricken; poor

second persecution

to share joys and sorrows; sharing good times and hard times; same as 同甘共苦

chloropicrin

excruciating

unable to bear the pain (idiom)

to spare no effort

to make nothing of hardships

lit. the pain of being hanged upside down (idiom); fig. extremely critical situation; dire straits

to suffer every possible torment (idiom); bitter hardship; to bear one's cross

sweet mouth, bitter heart (idiom); insincere flattery

see 備嘗辛苦|备尝辛苦[bei4 chang2 xin1 ku3]

(idiom) to have suffered all kinds of hardships

(Buddhism) the pain of parting with what (or whom) one loves, one of the eight distresses 八苦[ba1 ku3]

to ponder earnestly; to give a lot of thought to sth

physical pain; lit. skin and flesh suffer

expert craft from hard practice (idiom); hard-won skill; A masterpiece demands suffering.

to feign and complain bitterly of being poverty stricken (idiom)

to visit the poor and ask about their suffering (idiom)

A small hole not plugged will make you suffer a big hole (idiom); a stitch in time saves nine