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
people’s nature is hard to change
you can't change who you are
undying gratitude
it is hard to escape the net of justice (idiom)
unable to save oneself, let alone others
even an honest and upright official will have difficulty resolving a family dispute (proverb)
water once spilt cannot be retrieved (idiom); irreversible change
catastrophic
disaster movie
You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink. (idiom)
to create obstacles; to make sth difficult
knotty problem; intractable difficulty
solution to difficulties; trouble shooting
hard cases; dubious or hard-to-treat cases (medicine)
to create all kinds of difficulties (idiom)
to find sth increasingly difficult
hard to distinguish real from imitation
easier said than done
difficult for some reason; inconvenient
cannot obey; sorry, cannot comply
mining disaster
old habits are hard to change (idiom)
longstanding problems hard to change
too numerous to be cited (of atrocities or misdeeds) (idiom)
to be too embarrassed for words (idiom)