Word Meaning 業苦

ごうく gouku

業苦 is read as ごうく (gouku) and means karmic suffering.

Meaning

English

karmic suffering

Reading

Kana

ごうく

Romaji

gouku

Stroke Sequence

2 Characters • 21 Total Strokes

Study Signals and Categories

JLPT N3 Jōyō Grade 3 Kanken 8級 Rank 83801 Priority N

Related Vocabulary

Max. 12

業務

ぎょうむ

business

業種

ぎょうしゅ

type of industry

業師

わざし

tricky wrestler

病苦

びょうく

pain of sickness

生活苦

せいかつく

hardships of life (esp. due to lack of money)

四苦八苦

しくはっく

the four and eight kinds of suffering (birth, old age, disease, death, parting from loved ones, meeting disliked ones, not getting what one seeks, pains of the five skandha)

労苦

ろうく

labor

人間苦

にんげんく

human suffering

二重苦

にじゅうく

double torture

三重苦

さんじゅうく

triple handicap (esp. blindness, deafness and mutism)

四重苦

よんじゅうく

four-fold hardship

求不得苦

ぐふとくく

the pain of not getting what one seeks