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艰难

jiān nán

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 6 2-character word Traditional 艱難

艰难 (jiān nán) means "difficult". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 艰难 means

1. difficult
2. hard
3. challenging

The characters in 艰难

• 艰jiāndifficult; hard; hardship
• 难nándifficult (to...); problem; difficulty

Example sentences

• 这是个很艰难的斗争。
  Zhè shì gè hěn jiānnán de dòuzhēng.
  It was an uphill struggle.
• 这个月我过得有点艰难。
  This month was kind of difficult.
• 这名老妇艰难地爬上楼梯。
  The old lady climbed the stairs with difficulty.
• 我想让她干这项艰难的工作。
  Wǒ xiǎng ràng tā gàn zhè xiàng jiānnán de gōngzuò.
  I want to leave this difficult job to her.
• 自此之后，他过着艰难的生活。
  Since then, he lives a tough life.
• 自那以后他便过起了艰难的生活。
  Zì nà yǐhòu tā biàn guo qǐ le jiānnán de shēnghuó.
  He led a hard life after that.

Words starting with 艰难

• 艰难险阻jiān nán xiǎn zǔuntold dangers and difficulties (idiom)

Where 艰难 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · jiǎn–jiān (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read jiān nán correctly.
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