Chinese symbol for “exhausting”
辛苦
xīn kǔ
exhausting; hard; tough; arduous
The closest CC-CEDICT match for exhausting is 辛苦 (xīn kǔ), defined as: exhausting; hard; tough; arduous; to work hard; to go to a lot of trouble.
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “exhausting”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 辛苦.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 艰辛 (艱辛) | jiān xīn | hardships; arduous |
| 辛勤 | xīn qín | hardworking; industrious |
| 辛辣 | xīn là | spicy hot (taste); fig. biting (criticism) |
| 辛辛苦苦 | xīn xīn kǔ kǔ | painstakingly; with great trouble |
| 辛劳 (辛勞) | xīn láo | laborious |
| 痛苦 | tòng kǔ | pain; suffering |
| 苦难 (苦難) | kǔ nàn | suffering |
| 艰苦 (艱苦) | jiān kǔ | difficult; hard |
See also: Japanese symbol for “exhausting”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.