含辛茹苦 - to suffer every possible torment (idiom); bitter hardship, to bear one's cross - hán xīn rú kǔ | Definition | ChinesePod.com

含辛茹苦

hán xīn rú kǔ

Pinyin

Definition

含辛茹苦

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hán xīn rú kǔ

to suffer every possible torment (idiom); bitter hardship
to bear one's cross

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

hán

1 to keep
2 to contain
3 to suck (keep in your mouth without chewing)

tòng kǔ

1 pain
2 suffering
3 painful
4 classifier: 个 gè

kǔ

1 bitter
2 hardship
3 pain
4 to suffer
5 to bring suffering to
6 painstakingly

xīn hài

1 forty-eighth year H12 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1971 or 2031
2 cf 辛亥革命[Xīn hài Gé mìng], Xinhai Revolution of 1911

xīn kǔ

1 exhausting
2 hard
3 tough
4 arduous
5 to work hard
6 to go to a lot of trouble
7 hardship(s)

Idioms (20)

不胜其苦

bù shèng qí kǔ

1 unable to bear the pain (idiom)

倒悬之苦

dào xuán zhī kǔ

1 lit. the pain of being hanged upside down (idiom); fig. extremely critical situation
2 dire straits

备尝辛苦

bèi cháng xīn kǔ

1 to have suffered all kinds of hardships (idiom)

冥思苦想

míng sī kǔ xiǎng

1 to consider from all angles (idiom); to think hard
2 to rack one's brains

冥思苦索

míng sī kǔ suǒ

1 to mull over (idiom)
2 to think long and hard

Sample Sentences

我明白，中国人都觉得，孩子小的时候父母含辛茹苦地抚养孩子长大成人，所以父母老了，孩子就应该承担起奉养父母的责任，不然就会被社会指责。

wǒ míngbai ，Zhōngguórén dōu juéde ，háizi xiǎo de shíhou fùmǔ hánxīnrúkǔ de fǔyǎng háizi zhǎngdà chéngrén ，suǒyǐ fùmǔ lǎo le ，háizi jiù yīnggāi chéngdān qǐ fèngyǎng fùmǔ de zérèn ，bùrán jiù huì bèi shèhuì zhǐzé 。

I understand. Chinese people all think, when children are young their parents make a lot of sacrifices to raise their children well, so when the parents get old, children should take on the responsibility for looking after their parents, otherwise they will be castigated by society.