"何苦" meaning in All languages combined

See 何苦 on Wiktionary

Adverb [Chinese]

IPA: /xɤ³⁵ kʰu²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/ [Mandarin, Sinological-IPA], /hɔː²¹ fuː³⁵/ [Cantonese, Sinological-IPA], /ho²⁴ kʰu²¹³/ [Gan, Nanchang, Sinological-IPA], /ho¹¹ kʰu³¹/ [Hakka, Meinong, Miaoli, Sinological-IPA, Sixian], /hɔ²⁴⁻²² kʰɔ⁵⁵⁴/ [Hokkien, Quanzhou], /hɤ²³⁻³³ kʰɔ⁴¹/ [Hokkien, Kaohsiung], /ho¹³⁻²² kʰɔ⁵³/ [Hokkien, Zhangzhou], /ho²⁴⁻¹¹ kʰɔ⁵³/ [Hokkien, Taipei], /ho²⁴⁻²² kʰɔ⁵³/ [Hokkien, Xiamen], /xɤ³⁵ kʰu²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/, /hɔː²¹ fuː³⁵/, /ho²⁴ kʰu²¹³/, /ho¹¹ kʰu³¹/, /hɔ²⁴⁻²² kʰɔ⁵⁵⁴/, /hɤ²³⁻³³ kʰɔ⁴¹/, /ho¹³⁻²² kʰɔ⁵³/, /ho²⁴⁻¹¹ kʰɔ⁵³/, /ho²⁴⁻²² kʰɔ⁵³/ Chinese transliterations: hékǔ [Mandarin, Pinyin], ㄏㄜˊ ㄎㄨˇ [Mandarin, bopomofo], ho⁴ fu² [Cantonese, Jyutping], ho² ku³ [Gan, Wiktionary-specific], hò-khú [Hakka, Phak-fa-su, Sixian], hô͘-khó͘, hô-khó͘, hékǔ [Hanyu-Pinyin, Mandarin], hékǔ [Mandarin, Tongyong-Pinyin], ho²-kʻu³ [Mandarin, Wade-Giles], hé-kǔ [Mandarin, Yale], herkuu [Gwoyeu-Romatsyh, Mandarin], хэку [Mandarin, Palladius], xɛku [Mandarin, Palladius], hòh fú [Cantonese, Yale], ho⁴ fu² [Cantonese, Pinyin], ho⁴ fu² [Cantonese, Guangdong-Romanization], ho² ku³ [Gan, Nanchang, Wiktionary-specific], hò-khú [Hakka, Meinong, Miaoli, Phak-fa-su, Sixian], ho^ˇ ku^ˋ [Hakka, Hakka-Romanization-System, Meinong, Miaoli, Sixian], ho² ku³ [Hagfa-Pinyim, Hakka, Meinong, Miaoli, Sixian], hô͘-khó͘ [Hokkien, POJ], hôo-khóo [Hokkien, Tai-lo], ho'qor [Hokkien, Phofsit-Daibuun], hô-khó͘ [Hokkien, POJ], hô-khóo [Hokkien, Tai-lo], hoi'qor [Hokkien, Phofsit-Daibuun]
Head templates: {{head|zh|adverb}} 何苦
  1. why bother Derived forms: 何苦來 (hékǔlái), 何苦来 (hékǔlái)
    Sense id: en-何苦-zh-adv-MvoAXAUl Categories (other): Chinese entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Synonyms: 乜使 [Hokkien], 何乜苦 [Taiwanese-Hokkien], 何得苦 [Hokkien], 何必 (hébì), 何苦來 (hékǔlái), 何苦来 (hékǔlái), 何須 (héxū) [literary], 何须 (héxū) [literary], 抑使 [Taiwanese-Hokkien], 抑著 [Zhangzhou-Hokkien], 敢著 [Hokkien], 敢着 [Hokkien], 煞著 [Hokkien], 甲使 [Zhangzhou-Hokkien], 甲著 [Hokkien, Xiamen, Zhangzhou-Hokkien], 甲着 [Hokkien, Xiamen, Zhangzhou-Hokkien]

Inflected forms

{
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "zh",
        "2": "adverb"
      },
      "expansion": "何苦",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Chinese",
  "lang_code": "zh",
  "pos": "adv",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Chinese entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "derived": [
        {
          "roman": "hékǔlái",
          "word": "何苦來"
        },
        {
          "roman": "hékǔlái",
          "word": "何苦来"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "why bother"
      ],
      "id": "en-何苦-zh-adv-MvoAXAUl",
      "links": [
        [
          "why",
          "why"
        ],
        [
          "bother",
          "bother"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "tags": [
            "Hokkien"
          ],
          "word": "乜使"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Taiwanese-Hokkien"
          ],
          "word": "何乜苦"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Hokkien"
          ],
          "word": "何得苦"
        },
        {
          "roman": "hébì",
          "word": "何必"
        },
        {
          "roman": "hékǔlái",
          "word": "何苦來"
        },
        {
          "roman": "hékǔlái",
          "word": "何苦来"
        },
        {
          "roman": "héxū",
          "tags": [
            "literary"
          ],
          "word": "何須"
        },
        {
          "roman": "héxū",
          "tags": [
            "literary"
          ],
          "word": "何须"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Taiwanese-Hokkien"
          ],
          "word": "抑使"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Zhangzhou-Hokkien"
          ],
          "word": "抑著"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Hokkien"
          ],
          "word": "敢著"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Hokkien"
          ],
          "word": "敢着"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Hokkien"
          ],
          "word": "煞著"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Zhangzhou-Hokkien"
          ],
          "word": "甲使"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Hokkien",
            "Xiamen",
            "Zhangzhou-Hokkien"
          ],
          "word": "甲著"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Hokkien",
            "Xiamen",
            "Zhangzhou-Hokkien"
          ],
          "word": "甲着"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "hékǔ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "bopomofo"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "ㄏㄜˊ ㄎㄨˇ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Jyutping"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "ho⁴ fu²"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Gan",
        "Wiktionary-specific"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "ho² ku³"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hakka",
        "Phak-fa-su",
        "Sixian"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "hò-khú"
    },
    {
      "zh-pron": "hô͘-khó͘"
    },
    {
      "zh-pron": "hô-khó͘"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hanyu-Pinyin",
        "Mandarin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "hékǔ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Tongyong-Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "hékǔ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Wade-Giles"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "ho²-kʻu³"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Yale"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "hé-kǔ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Gwoyeu-Romatsyh",
        "Mandarin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "herkuu"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Palladius"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "хэку"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Palladius"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "xɛku"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/xɤ³⁵ kʰu²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/",
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Yale"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "hòh fú"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "ho⁴ fu²"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangdong-Romanization"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "ho⁴ fu²"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/hɔː²¹ fuː³⁵/",
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Gan",
        "Nanchang",
        "Wiktionary-specific"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "ho² ku³"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ho²⁴ kʰu²¹³/",
      "tags": [
        "Gan",
        "Nanchang",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hakka",
        "Meinong",
        "Miaoli",
        "Phak-fa-su",
        "Sixian"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "hò-khú"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hakka",
        "Hakka-Romanization-System",
        "Meinong",
        "Miaoli",
        "Sixian"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "ho^ˇ ku^ˋ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hagfa-Pinyim",
        "Hakka",
        "Meinong",
        "Miaoli",
        "Sixian"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "ho² ku³"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ho¹¹ kʰu³¹/",
      "tags": [
        "Hakka",
        "Meinong",
        "Miaoli",
        "Sinological-IPA",
        "Sixian"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "POJ"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "hô͘-khó͘"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Tai-lo"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "hôo-khóo"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Phofsit-Daibuun"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "ho'qor"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/hɔ²⁴⁻²² kʰɔ⁵⁵⁴/",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Quanzhou"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "POJ"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "hô-khó͘"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Tai-lo"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "hô-khóo"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Phofsit-Daibuun"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "hoi'qor"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/hɤ²³⁻³³ kʰɔ⁴¹/",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Kaohsiung"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ho¹³⁻²² kʰɔ⁵³/",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Zhangzhou"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ho²⁴⁻¹¹ kʰɔ⁵³/",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Taipei"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ho²⁴⁻²² kʰɔ⁵³/",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Xiamen"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/xɤ³⁵ kʰu²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/hɔː²¹ fuː³⁵/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ho²⁴ kʰu²¹³/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ho¹¹ kʰu³¹/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/hɔ²⁴⁻²² kʰɔ⁵⁵⁴/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/hɤ²³⁻³³ kʰɔ⁴¹/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ho¹³⁻²² kʰɔ⁵³/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ho²⁴⁻¹¹ kʰɔ⁵³/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ho²⁴⁻²² kʰɔ⁵³/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "何苦"
}
{
  "derived": [
    {
      "roman": "hékǔlái",
      "word": "何苦來"
    },
    {
      "roman": "hékǔlái",
      "word": "何苦来"
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "zh",
        "2": "adverb"
      },
      "expansion": "何苦",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Chinese",
  "lang_code": "zh",
  "pos": "adv",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Cantonese adverbs",
        "Cantonese lemmas",
        "Chinese adverbs",
        "Chinese entries with incorrect language header",
        "Chinese lemmas",
        "Chinese terms spelled with 何",
        "Chinese terms spelled with 苦",
        "Chinese terms with IPA pronunciation",
        "Gan adverbs",
        "Gan lemmas",
        "Gan terms needing pronunciation attention",
        "Hakka adverbs",
        "Hakka lemmas",
        "Hokkien adverbs",
        "Hokkien lemmas",
        "Mandarin adverbs",
        "Mandarin lemmas",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "why bother"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "why",
          "why"
        ],
        [
          "bother",
          "bother"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "hékǔ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "bopomofo"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "ㄏㄜˊ ㄎㄨˇ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Jyutping"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "ho⁴ fu²"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Gan",
        "Wiktionary-specific"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "ho² ku³"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hakka",
        "Phak-fa-su",
        "Sixian"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "hò-khú"
    },
    {
      "zh-pron": "hô͘-khó͘"
    },
    {
      "zh-pron": "hô-khó͘"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hanyu-Pinyin",
        "Mandarin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "hékǔ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Tongyong-Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "hékǔ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Wade-Giles"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "ho²-kʻu³"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Yale"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "hé-kǔ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Gwoyeu-Romatsyh",
        "Mandarin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "herkuu"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Palladius"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "хэку"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Palladius"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "xɛku"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/xɤ³⁵ kʰu²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/",
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Yale"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "hòh fú"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "ho⁴ fu²"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangdong-Romanization"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "ho⁴ fu²"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/hɔː²¹ fuː³⁵/",
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Gan",
        "Nanchang",
        "Wiktionary-specific"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "ho² ku³"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ho²⁴ kʰu²¹³/",
      "tags": [
        "Gan",
        "Nanchang",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hakka",
        "Meinong",
        "Miaoli",
        "Phak-fa-su",
        "Sixian"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "hò-khú"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hakka",
        "Hakka-Romanization-System",
        "Meinong",
        "Miaoli",
        "Sixian"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "ho^ˇ ku^ˋ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hagfa-Pinyim",
        "Hakka",
        "Meinong",
        "Miaoli",
        "Sixian"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "ho² ku³"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ho¹¹ kʰu³¹/",
      "tags": [
        "Hakka",
        "Meinong",
        "Miaoli",
        "Sinological-IPA",
        "Sixian"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "POJ"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "hô͘-khó͘"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Tai-lo"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "hôo-khóo"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Phofsit-Daibuun"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "ho'qor"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/hɔ²⁴⁻²² kʰɔ⁵⁵⁴/",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Quanzhou"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "POJ"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "hô-khó͘"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Tai-lo"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "hô-khóo"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Phofsit-Daibuun"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "hoi'qor"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/hɤ²³⁻³³ kʰɔ⁴¹/",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Kaohsiung"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ho¹³⁻²² kʰɔ⁵³/",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Zhangzhou"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ho²⁴⁻¹¹ kʰɔ⁵³/",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Taipei"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ho²⁴⁻²² kʰɔ⁵³/",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Xiamen"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/xɤ³⁵ kʰu²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/hɔː²¹ fuː³⁵/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ho²⁴ kʰu²¹³/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ho¹¹ kʰu³¹/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/hɔ²⁴⁻²² kʰɔ⁵⁵⁴/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/hɤ²³⁻³³ kʰɔ⁴¹/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ho¹³⁻²² kʰɔ⁵³/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ho²⁴⁻¹¹ kʰɔ⁵³/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ho²⁴⁻²² kʰɔ⁵³/"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien"
      ],
      "word": "乜使"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Taiwanese-Hokkien"
      ],
      "word": "何乜苦"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien"
      ],
      "word": "何得苦"
    },
    {
      "roman": "hébì",
      "word": "何必"
    },
    {
      "roman": "hékǔlái",
      "word": "何苦來"
    },
    {
      "roman": "hékǔlái",
      "word": "何苦来"
    },
    {
      "roman": "héxū",
      "tags": [
        "literary"
      ],
      "word": "何須"
    },
    {
      "roman": "héxū",
      "tags": [
        "literary"
      ],
      "word": "何须"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Taiwanese-Hokkien"
      ],
      "word": "抑使"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Zhangzhou-Hokkien"
      ],
      "word": "抑著"
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      "word": "敢著"
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    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien"
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      "word": "敢着"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien"
      ],
      "word": "煞著"
    },
    {
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      "word": "甲使"
    },
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        "Hokkien",
        "Xiamen",
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      ],
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    },
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        "Hokkien",
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}

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