hǎi

common
literary
idiom

Meaning of 苦海

苦海 means sea of bitterness; world of suffering. Pronounced kǔ hǎi.

  • sea of bitterness; world of suffering

Definitions & Examples

zhōng
cóng
tòng
de
hūn
yīn
zhōng
tuō
hǎi
 

He finally escaped from the sea of bitterness that was his painful marriage.

Duì
lái
shuō
 
duàn
zhài
de
zi
jiǎn
zhí
shì
shēn
xiàn
hǎi
 

For him, those days of being in debt were like being plunged into an abyss of suffering.

Zài
jiào
jiào
zhōng
 
xiū
xíng
de
zhī
biàn便
shì
tuō
shēng
hǎi
 

In Buddhist doctrine, one of the aims of spiritual practice is to escape the sea of suffering in the cycle of life and death.