病苦

bìngkǔ

noun

Meanings

1 pain and suffering of illness
2 the suffering of sickness

Characters

illness, sickness

bitter, suffering

Examples

HSK 6

佛教把病苦视为人生四苦之一。

Fójiào bǎ bìngkǔ shìwéi rénshēng sì kǔ zhīyī.

Buddhism regards the suffering of illness as one of the four sufferings of human life.

HSK 7-9

她默默承受着病苦的折磨。

Tā mòmò chéngshòu zhe bìngkǔ de zhémó.

She silently endured the torment of her illness.

Tips

culture

病苦 (illness-suffering) is one of the 八苦 ('eight sufferings') in Buddhist teaching, alongside birth 生, aging 老, and death 死. Together they form the foundation of the First Noble Truth.

Stroke Order

病 bìng

苦 kǔ