吃苦 (chīkǔ) means Endures hardship. Below are 3 sentences on this site that use it — with pinyin, an English translation and audio. All of them were written by hand; none is machine generated.
Dictionary examples
年轻时多 吃苦 并不是坏事。
Niánqīng shí duō chī kǔ bìng bú shì huàishì.
Enduring some hardship when young is no bad thing.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 吃苦
他不怕 吃苦 ，什么活都愿意干。
Tā bú pà chī kǔ, shénme huó dōu yuànyì gàn.
He is not afraid of hardship and will take on any job.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 吃苦
他宁可 吃苦 ，也要保住尊严。
Tā nìngkě chīkǔ, yě yào bǎozhù zūnyán.
He would rather suffer than lose his dignity.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 尊严
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Questions about 吃苦
How is 吃苦 used in a sentence?
This page shows 3 sentences using 吃苦 (chīkǔ, "Endures hardship"), each with pinyin, an English translation and audio. Every one of them was written by hand for this site.
Are these sentences machine generated?
No. They come from the site's own dictionary examples, graded readers, travel phrasebook and grammar library — all written by a person. A word with no sentence gets no page here, rather than a page of invented ones.
Is 吃苦 an HSK word?
Yes — 吃苦 is on the official HSK 6 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 6 page.
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