nán nan

difficult; difficult (to...); difficulty

HSK 3 #295

Character data

HSK 3
Frequency 295th character
Radical ⼜ (29.8)
Strokes 10
Index # 2147
TRADITIONAL

Definitions

难 nán
  1. 1. difficult
  2. 2. difficult (to...)
  3. 3. difficulty
  4. 4. problem
  5. 5. not good
难 nàn
  1. 1. disaster
  2. 2. distress
  3. 3. to scold

Stroke order

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Words containing 难

Word Meaning
ugly; unsightly
unbearable; hard to endure
a trial; tribulation; a torment
to find it hard to speak about sth
extremely rare (idiom); once in a blue moon
to suffer a calamity; distress
in an impossible situation
refugee camp
unpalatable
to censure
difficulty; problem; trouble
calamity
can't guarantee; hard to say; difficult to preserve
unpleasant to hear; offensive; vulgar
to deliberately make things difficult; to be hard on sb
air crash; aviation accident or incident
to stump; to baffle; to confound
hard to explain; it's a long story
to be unavoidable (idiom)
difficult to understand
(fig.) difficult to achieve; difficult birth
trials and tribulations
dilemma; to face a difficult choice; quandary
to just escape from calamity
to raise difficult questions; to rise in revolt