苦苦 kǔ kǔ

kǔ kǔ set phrase suffering from external circumstances
Domain: Buddhism 佛教
Notes: Sanskrit equivalent: duḥkhaduḥkhatā, Pali: dukkhadukkhatā, Japanese: kuku; one of the 三苦 'three kinds of suffering'; suffering from physical or mental distress, such as hunger, sickness, cold, heat, etc (BL 'duḥkhaduḥkhatā'; Ding '苦苦'; FGDB '苦苦'; SH '苦苦')

Contained in

• 辛辛苦苦 painstakingly; with great trouble
• 苦苦哀求 to entreat piteously; to implore

Word is mentioned most frequently in

Truncated for common words

• 第八十一回 Chapter 81 Journey to the West 西遊記 — count: 2
• 第二回 Chapter 33 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 2
• 第二十二回 Chapter 22 Journey to the West 西遊記 — count: 2
• 第五十三回 Chapter 53 Water Margin 水滸傳 — count: 2
• 第二十回 Chapter 20 Water Margin 水滸傳 — count: 2
• 第四十六回 Chapter 46 Romance of the Three Kingdoms 三國演義 — count: 2
• 第十二回 Chapter 12 Journey to the West 西遊記 — count: 1
• 第三十五回 Chapter 35 Journey to the West 西遊記 — count: 1
• 第五十八回 Chapter 58 Romance of the Three Kingdoms 三國演義 — count: 1
• 第四十一回 Chapter 41 Water Margin 水滸傳 — count: 1

Collocations

• 苦苦哀告 (苦苦哀告) 戴宗又苦苦哀告道 — Water Margin 水滸傳, 第五十三回 Chapter 53 — count: 3
• 苦苦推辞 (苦苦推辭) 何必苦苦推辭 — Romance of the Three Kingdoms 三國演義, 第十一回 Chapter 11 — count: 2