No Pain, No Gain in Japanese is 苦は楽の種 which is read ku wa raku no tane
The Japanese phrase ku wa raku no tane meaning “No Pain, No Gain” is composed of the word 苦 (read ku) meaning “pain”, the grammatical element は (read wa) indicating the previous words is the subject, 楽 (read raku) meaning “ease, comfort”, the grammatical possessive element の (read no) and 種 (read tane) meaning “seed”. A literal translation is “pain is the seed of comfort”.
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