痛苦 (tòngkǔ) means Pain (suffering - painful). Below are 5 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
那段日子非常 痛苦 。
Nà duàn rìzi fēicháng tòngkǔ.
That period was extremely painful.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 痛苦
这种 痛苦 很难忍耐。
Zhè zhǒng tòngkǔ hěn nán rěnnài.
This kind of pain is hard to endure.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 忍耐
过多的欲望会让人 痛苦 。
Guò duō de yùwàng huì ràng rén tòngkǔ.
Too many desires bring suffering.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 欲望
对 痛苦 看得太多，人容易变得麻木。
Duì tòngkǔ kàn de tài duō, rén róngyì biàn de mámù.
Seeing too much suffering easily makes a person numb.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 麻木
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How is 痛苦 used in a sentence?
This page shows 5 sentences using 痛苦 (tòngkǔ, "Pain (suffering - painful)"), 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 痛苦 an HSK word?
Yes — 痛苦 is on the official HSK 5 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 5 page.
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