吃苦头 Save Create a free account to save words Traditional (Taiwan): 吃苦頭 chīkǔtou ㄔ ㄎㄨˇ ˙ㄊㄡ 男 女 to suffer to suffer for one's actions to pay dearly to burn one's fingers Character by character 吃(chī)suffer 苦(kǔ)suffer 头(tou)suffix for nouns Sign up for a free account to save words and review them A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0