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苦しい is an exact match with one form of the following word:
苦しい
BOOST
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くるしい
1. painful; difficult; agonizing
2. needy; tight (budget); straitened (circumstances) (see also: 苦しい懐:くるしいふところ)
3. forced (smile, joke); lame (excuse); strained (interpretation) (see also: 苦しい言い訳:くるしいいいわけ)
4. awkward (situation); painful (position)
suffix, 'i' adjective
5. (after masu stem) hard to do; unpleasant (see also: 寝苦しい:ねぐるしい, 聞き苦しい:ききぐるしい, 見苦しい:みぐるしい; often ぐるしい)My mastery:
My current mastery of 苦しい:
My flashcards:
Usefulness and usage:
• Kanshudo usefulness level: 3 (among the 3,000 most useful words in Japanese)
• Kanshudo usefulness level is based on a usefulness score of 131,778 which gives a rank of 1,908
苦しい is the most useful form.
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This word is a member of our collection of the 10,000 most useful words in Japanese:
• This form is almost always used
• Google Japan frequency rank: 29,000
(about 21,100,000 results)
• This form appears in Wikipedia's list of JLPT N3 vocabulary
(see JLPT collections)
• iknow! Core 6000 rank: 828
(see iKnow! collections)
• Wikipedia most common 20000 words rank: 13717
• This form appears in the 1998 'Ichimango goi bunruishuu' frequent word list by Senmon Kyouiku
• This form appears in the 24,000 words in the Mainichi Shimbun frequency analysis by Alexandre Girardi
• This form is in band 18 in the EDICT word frequency file
(bands go from 1-48, where 1 is most common - each contains about 500 words)
くるしい
BOOST
My flashcards:
Usefulness and usage:
• This form is rarely used
• Google Japan frequency rank: 140,000
(about 644,000 results)
• This form appears in the 1998 'Ichimango goi bunruishuu' frequent word list by Senmon Kyouiku
• This form appears in the 24,000 words in the Mainichi Shimbun frequency analysis by Alexandre Girardi
• This form is in band 18 in the EDICT word frequency file
(bands go from 1-48, where 1 is most common - each contains about 500 words)
More info:
More dictionaries:
Tangorin ⇗ |
jisho.org ⇗ |
Linguee ⇗ |
ALC / 英辞郎 ⇗ |
Weblio ⇗ |
Weblio (例) ⇗ |
Goo 辞書 ⇗ |
YouGlish JA ⇗ |
語源由来辞典 ⇗ |
Reverso ⇗
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