艰苦奋斗 Save Sign in to save words Traditional (Taiwan): 艱苦奮鬥 On the HSK 7-9 vocabulary list, at CEFR level C2. jiānkǔfèndòu ㄐㄧㄢ ㄎㄨˇ ㄈㄣˋ ㄉㄡˋ to struggle arduously Character by character 艰(jiān)difficult 苦(kǔ)bitter 奋(fèn)exert oneself 斗(dòu)fight A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0 国际中文教育中文水平等级标准, 中华人民共和国教育部, MIT