<entry id="2204015" stat="A" corpus="jmdict" type="jmdict">
<ent_corp type="jmdict">jmdict</ent_corp>
<ent_seq>1244440</ent_seq>
<k_ele>
<keb>苦境</keb>
<ke_pri>news1</ke_pri>
<ke_pri>nf11</ke_pri>
</k_ele>
<k_ele>
<keb>苦況</keb>
<ke_inf>&rK;</ke_inf>
</k_ele>
<r_ele>
<reb>くきょう</reb>
<re_pri>news1</re_pri>
<re_pri>nf11</re_pri>
</r_ele>
<sense>
<pos>&n;</pos>
<gloss>difficult situation</gloss>
<gloss>adverse circumstances</gloss>
<gloss>predicament</gloss>
<gloss>trouble</gloss>
<gloss>dilemma</gloss>
<gloss>distress</gloss>
</sense>
<info>
<audit time="2012-06-02 01:49:04" stat="A" unap="true">
<upd_uid>pupchurch</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Paul Upchurch</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_refs>必携 類語実用辞典 (merges)
daij, JWN, EDR日英対訳辞書</upd_refs>
<upd_diff>@@ -8,0 +8,3 @@
+&lt;/k_ele&gt;
+&lt;k_ele&gt;
+&lt;keb&gt;苦況&lt;/keb&gt;</upd_diff>
</audit>
<audit time="2012-06-02 03:17:12" stat="A">
<upd_uid>rene</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Rene Malenfant</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_detl>no kokugo merges.  there must be a distinction, but i fail to see it</upd_detl>
</audit>
<audit time="2018-11-21 22:45:15" stat="A" unap="true">
<upd_uid>robin1354</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Robin Scott</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_detl>Revising glosses.</upd_detl>
<upd_refs>gg5, prog</upd_refs>
<upd_diff>@@ -18,0 +19,3 @@
+&lt;gloss&gt;difficult situation&lt;/gloss&gt;
+&lt;gloss&gt;adverse circumstances&lt;/gloss&gt;
+&lt;gloss&gt;predicament&lt;/gloss&gt;
@@ -20,4 +23,2 @@
-&lt;gloss&gt;crisis&lt;/gloss&gt;
-&lt;gloss&gt;predicament&lt;/gloss&gt;
-&lt;gloss&gt;squeeze&lt;/gloss&gt;
-&lt;gloss&gt;pinch&lt;/gloss&gt;
+&lt;gloss&gt;dilemma&lt;/gloss&gt;
+&lt;gloss&gt;distress&lt;/gloss&gt;</upd_diff>
</audit>
<audit time="2018-11-22 00:26:08" stat="A">
<upd_uid>jwb</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Jim Breen</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
</audit>
<audit time="2022-08-14 19:57:56" stat="A" unap="true">
<upd_name>Stephen Kraus</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_refs>The kokugos have 苦境 and 苦況 split into separate entries, but the difference seems very subtle.
苦境: 苦しい立場・境遇
苦況: 苦しい状況・ありさま

Google N-gram Corpus Counts
╭─ーーーー─┬─────────┬───────╮
│ 苦境　　 │ 176,850 │ 98.3% │
│ 苦況　　 │   3,054 │  1.7% │ 🡠 rK (daijr/s, koj)
│ くきょう │     943 │  N/A  │
╰─ーーーー─┴─────────┴───────╯</upd_refs>
<upd_diff>@@ -10,0 +11 @@
+&lt;ke_inf&gt;&amp;rK;&lt;/ke_inf&gt;</upd_diff>
</audit>
<audit time="2022-08-15 01:03:02" stat="A">
<upd_uid>jwb</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Jim Breen</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
</audit>
</info>
</entry>