• 艱苦かんく

  privation suffering

• 艱難かんなん

  hardships, privations, difficulties

• 時艱じかん

  problems that affect a period of time, hardships peculiar to an age, hard problems of the times

• 艱難辛苦かんなんしんく

  trial and tribulation, hardships, privations, difficulties

• 艱難苦労かんなんくろう

  trials and tribulations, adversities, suffering hardships and troubles

• 辛苦艱難しんくかんなん

  trials and tribulations, adversities, suffering hardships and troubles

• 艱難汝を玉にすかんなんなんじをたまにす

  hardship makes the man