难(nán)

HSK 110 strokesTrad. 難
Readingsnánnànnuó

difficult (to...)

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Character information

Pinyin
nán / nàn / nuó
Meaning
difficult (to...); problem; difficulty; difficult; not good
Strokes
10
HSK level
HSK 1
Traditional
難

Origin & structure

Where 难 comes from and how its parts fit together.

Ideograph⿰又隹

A hand 又 trying to grasp at a bird 隹

A combination of parts whose meanings add up to the whole.

Made of

又yòu隹zhuī

Parts are arranged left to right.

Traditional form 難: bird

How to write 难 step by step

10 strokes — each frame adds one stroke, shown in dark ink over the lighter ones.

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Words with 难

Common words using 难 — tap any character to open its stroke-order page.

kùn困nán难
HSK 3

difficult

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diāo刁nàn难
HSK 7-9

to be hard on sb; to deliberately make things difficult

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biàn便nán难

retort with challenging questions; debate

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kè克nán难

to make do in difficult circumstances by being resourceful; (of circumstanc…

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liǎng两nán难

dilemma; quandary; to face a difficult choice

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yī一mù木nán难zhī支

lit. a single post cannot prop up a falling house (idiom)

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yī一yán言nán难jìn尽

hard to explain in a few words (idiom); complicated and not easy to express succinctly

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rén人xīn心nán难cè测

hard to fathom a person's mind (idiom)

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困刁便克两一木支

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