I-adjective (keiyoushi)bitter (taste) · sour (expression, look); bitter; displeased; unpleasant · bitter (e.g. experience); painful; distressing; hard; trying

Na-adjective (keiyodoshi), Nounpoor (at); weak (in); not very good (at) · not one's cup of tea; not one's favorite

I-adjective (keiyoushi)painful; difficult; tough; hard · distressing; (psychologically) difficult; stressful; awkward (e.g. position) · straitened (circumstances); tight (financial situation); needy; struggling

Nounpain; agony; suffering; distress; torment

Noun, Suru verb, Transitive verb, Intransitive verbtrouble; hardship; difficulty; labour; labor; toil; pains · anxiety; worry; concern; cares

Godan verb with 'mu' ending, Intransitive verbto suffer; to groan; to be worried

Noundifficult situation; adverse circumstances; predicament; trouble; dilemma; distress

Nouncandid advice; frank advice; honest opinion; exhortation; harsh but honest advice

Noun, Suru verb, Intransitive verb, Noun which may take the genitive case particle 'no'bitterness; distress; pain; anguish; affliction · bitterness and astringency

Noun, Suru verb, Intransitive verbbitter smile; wry smile; strained laugh; sarcastic laugh

Nouncomplaint; troubles; objection; grievance

Noun, Suru verb, Intransitive verbpains; hard work; effort; trouble; labour; labor

Noun, Suru verb, Intransitive verbhard fight; close game; struggle; tight contest

Nounsuffering; distress; hardship; trial

Noun, Suru verb, Intransitive verb(mental) agony; anguish; suffering; distress

Noun, Noun which may take the genitive case particle 'no'bitterness; bitter taste

Noun, Suru verb, Intransitive verbracking one's brains; worrying oneself; being anxious

Nounpain; anguish; distress; suffering; hardship

Noun, Suru verb, Intransitive verbbitter smile; wry smile; forced smile; strained laugh

Ichidan verb, Transitive verbto torment; to pain; to inflict (physical) pain; to hurt · to harass; to cause (emotional) pain; to afflict; to distress; to bother; to trouble; to stump; to baffle

Expressions (phrases, clauses, etc.), Nounlast resort; desperate measure taken under the pressure of necessity

Noun, Noun which may take the genitive case particle 'no', Na-adjective (keiyodoshi)nervous temperament; worry habit; pessimistic nature; pessimism

I-adjective (keiyoushi)unpleasant; disgusting; loathsome; shameful; scandalous

Noun, Na-adjective (keiyodoshi), Noun which may take the genitive case particle 'no'(out of) desperation; (as a) last resort; (driven by) pain

I-adjective (keiyoushi)bitterish; bitter

I-adjective (keiyoushi)no problem; no objection; it doesn't matter

Expressions (phrases, clauses, etc.), Na-adjective (keiyodoshi)sour (expression); as if having chewed on a bitter bug

Nouncoolie

Godan verb with 'ru' ending, Intransitive verbto feel bitter; to scowl

Nounworld of suffering · life of prostitution

Noun, Suru verb, Intransitive verbworking one's way through school; earning one's own school fees · studying under adversity; studying in harsh economic circumstances

Nounpleasure and pain; joys and sorrows

Noun, Suru verb, Intransitive verbpenance; austerities; mortification; asceticism · difficult work; strenuous task

Noundistress; anguish; mental suffering

Nounmagnesia; magnesium oxide

Noun, Suru verb, Intransitive verbhard fight; difficult struggle

Nounbitter cup; bitter experience; bitter defeat; ordeal

Noun, Suru verb, Intransitive verb, Noun which may take the genitive case particle 'no'anguish

Nountoil; drudgery · penal servitude; imprisonment (with hard labour)

Nounbittern; concentrated solution of salts (esp. magnesium chloride) left over after the crystallization of seawater or brine

Noun, Suru verb, Transitive verb, Intransitive verblaborious composition; struggling to compose a poem

Nounbitterness; bitter taste

Nounbitter liquid; bitter experience

Nounwormwood (Artemisia absinthium); absinthe

Nounhurting oneself (to trick an adversary)

Nounbitter-tasting bug

Nouncoldest time of the year; bitter suffering

Noununremitting effort; dogged perseverance; unswerving loyalty

Nounintense heat