清苦 Save Sign in to save words qīngkǔ ㄑㄧㄥ ㄎㄨˇ destitute but honest poor and simple spartan austere Character by character 清(qīng)Qing (Wade-Giles: Ch'ing) dynasty of China 苦(kǔ)bitter Words that sound like qīngkǔ 勤苦 A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0