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苦心

JLPT N2 · Vocabulary

苦心 — “pains, hard work, taking great trouble”

苦心 (read くしん) means pains, hard work, taking great trouble. It appears on the JLPT N2 vocabulary list and is a noun.

Reading

くしん

Meaning

pains, hard work, taking great trouble

苦心 in a sentence

苦心くしんして作るつくる。

To make it with great effort.

The kanji in 苦心

苦suffering; bitter
心heart, mind

Words that share a kanji with 苦心

苦いにがい— bitter
苦しいくるしい— painful, hard, tough
苦手にがて— poor at, weak at, not one's cup of tea
苦痛くつう— pain, agony, suffering
苦しむくるしむ— to suffer, to be distressed
苦労くろう— hardship, trouble, toil
苦情くじょう— complaint, grievance
心配するしんぱいする— to worry, to be anxious

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