難 (nán)
Difficult; hard; problem
How 難 is written
- Strokes
- 19
- Radical
- 廿 — two hands/twenty
- Traditional
- 難
- Simplified
- 难
難 has 2 readings
The pronunciation changes with the meaning, so the reading has to be learned per word.
- nán
- difficult (to...); problem; difficulty; difficult
- nàn
- disaster; distress; to scold
Common words using 難
- 困難 kùnnan
- difficult; challenging; straitened circumstances
- 難以 nányǐ
- hard to (predict, imagine etc)
- 難受 nánshòu
- to feel unwell; to suffer pain; to be difficult to bear
- 難得 nándé
- seldom; rare; hard to come by
- 難過 nánguò
- to feel sad; to feel unwell; (of life) to be difficult
- 難道 nándào
- don't tell me ...; could it be that...?
- 患難 huànnàn
- trials and tribulations
- 災難 zāinàn
- disaster; catastrophe
- 為難 wéinán
- to feel embarrassed or awkward; to make things difficult (for someone); to find things difficult (to do or manage)
- 磨難 mónàn
- a torment; a trial; tribulation
- 艱難 jiānnán
- difficult; hard; challenging
- 苦難 kǔnàn
- suffering
難 in a sentence
我覺得學中文不難。
Wǒ juédé xué Zhōngwén bù nán.
“I think learning Chinese is not difficult.”
How common is 難?
難 is the 295th most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 64.3% of all running text.
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