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难关

nán guān

HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word Traditional 難關

难关 (nán guān) means "difficulty; crisis". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 难关 means

1. difficulty
2. crisis

The characters in 难关

• 难nándifficult (to...); problem; difficulty
• 关guānmountain pass; to close; to shut; to turn off; to confine; to lock (sb) up…

Example sentences

• 我们要渡过难关。
  We have to get through this.

Sounds the same

Read nán guān, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 南关see 南关区

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• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read nán guān correctly.
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