苦

unpleasant to hear

difficult to hear

crumpled; wrinkled; crinkled; creased

to look sour; to look disgusted; to scowl; to frown

to suffer from hunger

formal; stiff; strict; ceremonious

taking great pains

Slang; Pun on 宜しく; orig. used by young bike-riding delinquents; now oft. joc.

best regards; please remember me; please treat me favorably (favourably); please take care of

Idiomatic expression

to have a bitter experience

penance; hardship

Noun or verb acting prenominally

sternly handsome; manly

Proverb

the most helpful advice may be difficult to listen to; good medicine tastes bitter

to worry; to suffer

misery; distress

Yojijukugo; Buddhism

the Seven Misfortunes and Eight Pains

a series of disasters

many hardships

being arduous; working diligently enduring hardships

toil and moil; working assiduously for; tireless hard work; painstaking labor (labour)

stratagem for causing a rift in the enemy camp by using a seditious plot

bitterish; bitter

Proverb

danger past, God forgotten; once on shore, we pray no more; man turns to God only in times of trouble; there are no atheists in foxholes

being arduous; working diligently enduring hardships; making a strenuous effort

to be distressed with debts

Buddhism

the pain of separation from loved ones

Proverb

after pleasure comes pain; there is no pleasure without pain; there is no rose without a thorn; take the good with the bad