艱苦奮鬥 Save Sign in to save words Simplified: 艰苦奋斗 On the HSK 7-9 vocabulary list, at CEFR level C2. jiānkǔfèndòu ㄐㄧㄢ ㄎㄨˇ ㄈㄣˋ ㄉㄡˋ to struggle arduously Character by character 艱(jiān)difficult 苦(kǔ)bitter 奮(fèn)exert oneself 鬥(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