辛苦 (xīn kǔ) means hard; exhausting; to work hard; hardship.
Dictionary reading and meanings#
xīn kǔ: exhausting; hard; tough; arduous; to work hard; to go to a lot of trouble; hardship(s)
Reading the pinyin#
The spelling above follows the dictionary headword reading. It is a citation form, rather than a recording of a particular speaker. A written gloss is not a complete rule for choosing a word in every sentence.
Does this word always have one English translation?#
Use the listed sense that fits the sentence. Where the dictionary gives more than one reading or meaning, they are shown above rather than collapsed into a single universal translation.
Sources and lexical-data licence#
Lexical data adapted from CC-CEDICT contributors, distributed by MDBG, release dated 23 October 2026. English glosses have been shortened or reformatted here. This adapted lexical data is provided under CC BY-SA 4.0. The explanatory prose is newly written.