苦水 kǔshuǐ

  1. kǔshuǐ noun bitter water
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
    Notes: E.g. mineral water containing sulfates (CC-CEDICT '苦水')
  2. kǔshuǐ noun digestive fluids rising from stomach to the mouth
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
    Notes: (CC-CEDICT '苦水')
  3. kǔshuǐ noun suffering; bitter complaint
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
    Notes: (CC-CEDICT '苦水')

Also contained in

吐苦水倒苦水

Word is mentioned most frequently in

Truncated for common words

  • Scroll 49 Fo Ben Xing Ji Jing (Abhiniṣkramaṇasūtra) 佛本行集經 — count: 2
  • Scroll 23 Mahāprajñāpāramitāśāstra (Da Zhi Du Lun) 大智度論 — count: 1 , has English translation
  • Scroll 1 Monijiao Xia Bu Zan 摩尼教下部讚 — count: 1
  • Scroll 31 Fa Yuan Zhu Lin 法苑珠林 — count: 1
  • Scroll 8 Hongming Ji (Collection on the Propagation and Clarification of Buddhism) 弘明集 — count: 1 , has English translation
  • Scroll 2 Mahāparinirvāṇasūtra (Mahayana Mahaparinirvana sutra) 大般涅槃經 — count: 1
  • Scroll 1 A Biography of the Tripitaka Master of the Great Ci'en Monastery of the Great Tang Dynasty 大唐大慈恩寺三藏法師傳 — count: 1 , has English translation
  • Scroll 17 Guang Hong Ming Ji 廣弘明集 — count: 1 , has English translation
  • Scroll 2 Mahāparinirvāṇasūtra (Mahaparinirvana Sutra) 大般涅槃經 — count: 1 , has English translation
  • Scroll 2 Subāhuparipṛcchā (Miao Bi Pusa Suo Wen Jing) 妙臂菩薩所問經 — count: 1

Collocations

  • 醎苦水 (醎苦水) 誰欲渡彼大醎苦水 — Fo Ben Xing Ji Jing (Abhiniṣkramaṇasūtra) 佛本行集經, Scroll 49 — count: 3
  • 咸苦水 (鹹苦水) 由來鹹苦水色舊赤 — Guang Hong Ming Ji 廣弘明集, Scroll 17 — count: 2