何苦 (hé kǔ): meaning and stroke order
何苦 (hé kǔ) means why bother?, is it worth the trouble?.
何苦
- Simplified
- 何苦
- Traditional
- 何苦 (same form)
- Pinyin
- hé kǔ
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Stroke order of 何苦
何
- Hé surname He
- hé what; how
- 7 strokes
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苦
- kǔ bitter; hardship
- 8 strokes
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Meaning of 何苦
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hé kǔ
- why bother?
- is it worth the trouble?
Radicals of the characters
- 何
- Radical 人 (Kangxi radical 9) · 7 strokes · 亻 on the left, 可 on the right
- 苦
- Radical 艸 (Kangxi radical 140) · 9 strokes · 艹 on top, 古 below
Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.
Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).