nán nan

difficult, arduous, hard; unable

HSK 3 #295

DEFINITIONS

难 nán
  • difficult (to...)
  • problem
  • difficulty
  • difficult
  • not good
难 nàn
  • disaster
  • distress
  • to scold

STROKES

WORDS

看 nán kàn ugly; unsightly
以忍受 nán yǐ rěn shòu hard to endure; unbearable
mó nàn a torment; a trial; tribulation; a cross (to bear); well-tried
以启齿 nán yǐ qǐ chǐ to be too embarrassed to mention sth (idiom); to find it hard to speak about sth
千载逢 qiān zǎi nán féng extremely rare (idiom); once in a blue moon
shòu nàn to suffer a calamity; to suffer (e.g. under torture); distress
进退两 jìn tuì liǎng nán no room to advance or to retreat (idiom); without any way out of a dilemma; trapped; in an impossible situation
民营 nàn mín yíng refugee camp
吃 nán chī unpalatable
zé nàn to censure
处 nán chu trouble; difficulty; problem
wēi nàn calamity
保 nán bǎo hard to say; can't guarantee; difficult to protect; difficult to preserve
听 nán tīng unpleasant to hear; coarse; vulgar; offensive; shameful
diāo nàn to be hard on sb; to deliberately make things difficult
kōng nàn air crash; aviation accident or incident
倒 nán dǎo to baffle; to confound; to stump
一言尽 yī yán nán jìn hard to explain in a few words (idiom); complicated and not easy to express succinctly
在所免 zài suǒ nán miǎn to be unavoidable (idiom)
懂 nán dǒng difficult to understand
产 nán chǎn difficult birth; (fig.) difficult to achieve
huàn nàn trials and tribulations
liǎng nán dilemma; quandary; to face a difficult choice
不死 dà nàn bù sǐ to just escape from calamity
fā nàn to rise in revolt; to raise difficult questions