"Painful" • Chinese-English Dictionary

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痛苦 tòng kǔ pain / suffering / painful / CL:個|个[ge4]
苦苦 kǔ kǔ strenuously / persistently / hard / painful
惨痛 cǎn tòng bitter / painful / deeply distressed
酸涩 suān sè sour / acrid / (fig.) bitter / painful
凄怆 qī chuàng pitiful / painful / heartrending
火辣辣 huǒ là là scorching hot / (of a burn or other injury) painful / burning / (of one's mood) agitated / heated / intense / (of a personality) fiery / sharp-tongued / (Tw) (of a woman's figure) smoking hot
劳劳碌碌 láo láo lù lù tiring / difficult to get by / painful
疼痛 téng tòng pain / (of a body part) to be painful / to be sore / to hurt / (of a person) to be in pain
火辣 huǒ là painful heat / scorching / rude and forthright / provocative / hot / sexy
痛失 tòng shī to suffer the painful loss of (a loved one etc) / to miss out on (an opportunity) / to fail to gain (victory etc)
苦果 kǔ guǒ lit. bitter fruit / fig. painful consequence
生疼 shēng téng extremely painful
痛定思痛 tòng dìng sī tòng to think of the pain when the pain is gone (idiom) / to ponder about a painful experience
钻心 zuān xīn to sneak in / to infiltrate / to be piercingly painful / to be unbearable (of pain, itch etc)
虐恋 nu:è liàn painful love affair / sadomasochism
阿鼻地狱 A1 bí dì yù (Buddhism) the Avici Hell, the last and most painful of the eight hot hells
热剌剌 rè là là smartingly painful
发痛 fā tòng to ache / to be sore / to feel painful
砭骨 biān gǔ to be extremely cold or painful
关格 guān gé blocked or painful urination, constipation and vomiting (Chinese medicine)
国际反对对动物进行痛苦试验协会  International Association Against Painful Experiments on Animals
苦不堪言 kǔ bù kān yán to suffer unspeakable misery / indescribably painful / hellish
阵痛期 zhèn tòng qī trying times / painful phase
火烧火燎 huǒ shāo huǒ liǎo restless with anxiety / to feel unbearably painful or hot
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