艱苦 Save Sign in to save words Simplified: 艰苦 On the HSK 5 vocabulary list, at CEFR level C1. jiānkǔ ㄐㄧㄢ ㄎㄨˇ 男 女 difficult hard arduous Character by character 艱(jiān)difficult 苦(kǔ)bitter Words with 艱苦 Starting with 艱苦 艱苦奮鬥 艱苦樸素 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