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辛苦 (xīn kǔ): meaning and stroke order

辛苦 (xīn kǔ) means exhausting, hard, tough, arduous, to work hard, to go to a lot of trouble, hardship(s).

辛苦

Simplified
辛苦
Traditional
辛苦 (same form)
Pinyin
xīn kǔ

Stroke order of 辛苦

辛

  • Xīn surname Xin
  • xīn (of taste) hot or pungent; hard
  • 7 strokes

Stroke by stroke

苦

  • kǔ bitter; hardship
  • 8 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 辛苦

  1. xīn kǔ
    • exhausting
    • hard
    • tough
    • arduous
    • to work hard
    • to go to a lot of trouble
    • hardship(s)

Radicals of the characters

辛
Radical 辛 (Kangxi radical 160) · 7 strokes · 立 on top, 十 below
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.

辛苦 in our stories

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  • 原来她是田螺变的，看他一个人太辛苦，就来帮他。

    yuánlái tā shì tiánluó biàn de kàn tā yí gè rén tài xīnkǔ jiù lái bāng tā

    She was the river snail, transformed; she had seen how hard he worked on his own and come to help.

    From the story The river-snail girl HSK 4

Stories using 辛苦

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).