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难堪

nán kān

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word Traditional 難堪

难堪 (nán kān) means "hard to take; embarrassed". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 难堪 means

1. hard to take
2. embarrassed

The characters in 难堪

• 难nándifficult (to...); problem; difficulty
• 堪kān(bound form) may; can; (bound form) to endure; to bear; (in 堪舆

Example sentences

• 我没想要让你难堪。
  I didn't mean to embarrass you.

Where 难堪 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · ēn–ná (HSK 6), 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 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read nán kān correctly.
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