nán nan

difficult; difficult (to...); difficulty

Character data

Radical ⾫ (172.11)
Strokes 19
SIMPLIFIED

Definitions

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

Words containing 難

Word Meaning
a nobleman's word is his bond (proverb)
dysphagia (medicine)
miserly; skinflint
dysphagia (medicine)
difficult; difficult situation; challenging
the problem is...
fig. there's no place like home
to be unavoidable (idiom)
too anxious or worried to sit still
to be plagued with misfortunes; precarious
hardship makes a nation strong; rise from trouble
great catastrophe
to just escape from calamity
Survive big danger, later luck will come
Nothing is hard if you really try
intolerable behavior; Heaven cannot tolerate this (idiom)
hard to go from luxury back to thrift
easy to love luxury, hard to live simply
repay loans on time; then can borrow again
a beautiful dream is hard to realize (idiom)
It's difficult to achieve anything without support.
(classical) (of soldiers etc) resolute in the face of adversity
Every family goes through its problems. (idiom)
fig. extremely worried and troubled