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艰巨

jiān jù

Old HSK 5 HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word Traditional 艱鉅

艰巨 (jiān jù) means "arduous; terrible (task); very difficult". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

What 艰巨 means

1. (of a task, mission or responsibility) extremely difficult; challenging; demanding

Other readings

艰巨 is 多音字 — it is read more than one way, and the reading changes the meaning.

• jiān jùvariant of {艰巨|jiān jù}

The characters in 艰巨

• 艰jiāndifficult; hard; hardship
• 巨jùvery large; huge; tremendous; gigantic; (colloquial) very; extremely

Example sentences

• 我老板把艰巨的任务指派给了我。
  Wǒ lǎobǎn bǎ jiānjù de rènwu zhǐpài gěi le wǒ.
  My boss assigned the hard job to me.
• 我知道你们的所做的一切并不只是为了赢得选举，我也知道你们做这一切并不是为了我。你们这样做是因为你们明白前面的任务有多么艰巨。即便我们今晚欢呼庆祝，我们也知道明天将面临我们一生之中最艰难的挑战——两场战争、一个面临危险的星球，一个世纪以来最严重的金融危机。
  Wǒ zhīdào nǐmen de suǒ zuò de yīqiè bìngbù zhǐshì wèile yíngdé xuǎnjǔ, wǒ yě zhīdào nǐmen zuò zhè yīqiè bìngbù shì wèile wǒ. nǐmen zhèyàng zuò shì yīnwèi nǐmen míngbai qiánmiàn de rènwu yǒu duōme jiānjù. jíbiàn wǒmen jīnwǎn huānhū qìngzhù, wǒmen yě zhīdào míngtiān jiāng miànlín wǒmen yīshēng zhīzhōng zuì jiānnán de tiǎozhàn —— liǎng chǎng zhànzhēng, yī gè miànlín wēixiǎn de xīngqiú, yī gè shìjì yǐlái zuì yánzhòng de jīnróngwēijī.
  And I know you didn't do this just to win an election. And I know you didn't do it for me. You did it because you understand the enormity of the task that lies ahead. For even as we celebrate tonight, we know the challenges that tomorrow will bring are the greatest of our lifetime: two wars, a planet in peril, the worst financial crisis in a century.
• 我知道你们的所做的一切并不只是为了赢得选举，我也知道你们做这一切并不是为了我。你们这样做是因为你们明白前面的任务有多幺艰巨。即便我们今晚欢呼庆祝，我们也知道明天将面临我们一生之中最艰难的挑战——两场战争、一个面临危险的星球，一个世纪以来最严重的金融危机。
  And I know you didn't do this just to win an election. And I know you didn't do it for me. You did it because you understand the enormity of the task that lies ahead. For even as we celebrate tonight, we know the challenges that tomorrow will bring are the greatest of our lifetime: two wars, a planet in peril, the worst financial crisis in a century.

Words starting with 艰巨

• 艰巨性jiān jù xìngarduousness; formidability; difficulty

Sounds the same

Read jiān jù, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 兼具to combine; to have both
• 间距gap; spacing; distance between objects; interval between events

Where 艰巨 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Courage, Determination & Hardship (HSK 5), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

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• Every HSK 5 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read jiān jù correctly.
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