Chinese–English

八苦

bā kǔ · ba ku

Same in simplified and traditional Chinese

Meaning

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the eight distresses - birth, age, sickness, death, parting with what we love, meeting with what we hate, unattained aims, and all the ills of the five skandhas (Buddhism)

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