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艰辛

jiān xīn

HSK 3.0 level 6 2-character word Traditional 艱辛

艰辛 (jiān xīn) means "hardships; arduous; difficult". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 艰辛 means

1. hardships
2. arduous
3. difficult

The characters in 艰辛

• 艰jiāndifficult; hard; hardship
• 辛xīn(of taste) hot or pungent; hard; laborious

Example sentences

• 前方的道路将很漫长，我们攀登的脚步会很艰辛。我们可能无法在一年甚至一个任期内实现这些目标，但我从未像今晚这样满怀希望，我们将实现我们的目标。
  Qiánfāng de dàolù jiāng hěn màncháng, wǒmen pāndēng de jiǎobù huì hěn jiānxīn. wǒmen kěnéng wúfǎ zài yī nián shènzhì yī gè rènqī nèi shíxiàn zhèxiē mùbiāo, dàn wǒ cóngwèi xiàng jīnwǎn zhèyàng mǎnhuái xīwàng, wǒmen jiāng shíxiàn wǒmen de mùbiāo.
  The road ahead will be long. Our climb will be steep. We may not get there in one year or even in one term. But, America, I have never been more hopeful than I am tonight that we WILL get there.

Sounds the same

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

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