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JLPT BANDN5 BEGINNER → N1 ADVANCED

苦く労ろう

N3
くろう kurou
  1. troubles
  2. hardships
nounする verbtransitiveintransitive

Chinese meanings

辛苦;艰难

Examples

  • せっかくの苦く労ろうもあだになった。
    All my pains went for nothing.
    好不容易付出的努力也白费了。
  • 彼かれは苦く労ろうして働はたらいて財ざい産さんをためた。
    He accumulated his fortune by hard work.
    他辛勤工作积攒了财富。
Use this entry in code
import { getVocabById } from 'kotowa';
getVocabById('08ca0a613f'); // 苦労
{
  "id": "08ca0a613f",
  "word": "苦労",
  "reading": "くろう",
  "romaji": "kurou",
  "meanings": [
    "troubles",
    "hardships"
  ],
  "level": "N3",
  "pos": [
    "n",
    "vs",
    "vt",
    "vi"
  ],
  "jmdict_id": 1244680,
  "examples": [
    {
      "ja": "せっかくの苦労もあだになった。",
      "furigana": "せっかくの{苦労|くろう}もあだになった。",
      "en": "All my pains went for nothing.",
      "tatoeba_id": 214040
    },
    {
      "ja": "彼は苦労して働いて財産をためた。",
      "furigana": "{彼|かれ}は{苦労|くろう}して{働|はたら}いて{財産|ざいさん}をためた。",
      "en": "He accumulated his fortune by hard work.",
      "tatoeba_id": 108108
    }
  ],
  "zh": {
    "status": "reviewed",
    "source_hash": "22d52bb3ba13f93bfb0449b4182ef8e9dc467c9a25e07e03ca5c64f3580e8798",
    "meanings": [
      "辛苦",
      "艰难"
    ],
    "examples": [
      {
        "ja": "せっかくの苦労もあだになった。",
        "zh": "好不容易付出的努力也白费了。"
      },
      {
        "ja": "彼は苦労して働いて財産をためた。",
        "zh": "他辛勤工作积攒了财富。"
      }
    ],
    "references": [
      "upstream vocab/n3/08ca0a613f",
      "JMdict ent_seq 1244680; local JMdict_e.gz",
      "Original Chinese authored and reviewed by Codex; no independent human review"
    ],
    "reviewer": "Codex",
    "review_method": "ai",
    "reviewed_at": "2026-10-28",
    "review_hash": "f89979507f3a3686c7152f24187c4d47098ec2094cee231d9a08ad616d9a57a9"
  }
}