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难

nán

HSK 3 Character Traditional 難

What 难 means

1. difficult (to...)
2. problem
3. difficulty
4. difficult
5. not good

Other readings

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

• nàndisaster; distress; to scold

Example sentences

• 戒烟难。
  It is difficult to give up smoking.
• 这很难。
  This is difficult.
• 难讲喔。
  It's hard to say.
• 太难了。
  It's so hard.
• 知己难求。
  Zhījǐ nán qiú.
  A real friend is like a rare bird.
• 覆水难收。
  Fù shuǐ nán shōu.
  The damage is done.

Words starting with 难

• 难过nán guòto feel sad; to feel unwell; (of life) to be difficult
• 难道nán dàodon't tell me ...; could it be that...?
• 难受nán shòuto feel unwell; to suffer pain; to be difficult to bear
• 难怪nán guài(it's) no wonder (that...); (it's) not surprising (that)
• 难看nán kànugly; unsightly
• 难得nán déseldom; rare; hard to come by
• 难免nán miǎnhard to avoid; difficult to escape from; will inevitably
• 难堪nán kānhard to take; embarrassed
• 难以nán yǐhard to (predict, imagine etc)
• 难能可贵nán néng kě guìrare and precious; valuable; remarkable
• 难度nán dùdegree of difficulty
• 难忘nán wàngunforgettable
• 难题nán tídifficult problem
• 难民nàn mínrefugee
• 难点nán diǎndifficulty
• 难听nán tīngunpleasant to hear; coarse; vulgar
• 难为nán weito bother; to press sb, usu. to do sth; it's a tough job
• 难以置信nán yǐ zhì xìn(idiom) hard to believe; incredible
• 难关nán guāndifficulty; crisis
• 难为情nán wéi qíngembarrassed
• 难处nán chutrouble; difficulty; problem
• 难吃nán chīunpalatable
• 难熬nán áo(of pain or hardship) hard to bear
• 难以忍受nán yǐ rěn shòuhard to endure; unbearable

Words containing 难

• 困难kùn nandifficult; challenging; straitened circumstances
• 艰难jiān nándifficult; hard; challenging
• 灾难zāi nàndisaster; catastrophe
• 为难wéi nánto feel embarrassed or awkward; to make things difficult (for someone)…
• 苦难kǔ nànsuffering
• 遇难yù nànto perish; to be killed
• 磨难mó nàna torment; a trial; tribulation
• 避难bì nànto take refuge; to seek asylum
• 受难shòu nànto suffer a calamity; to suffer (e.g. under torture); distress
• 刁难diāo nànto be hard on sb; to deliberately make things difficult; Taiwan pr. diāo nán
• 劫难jié nàncalamity
• 疑难yí nánhard to understand; difficult to deal with; knotty
• 两难liǎng nándilemma; quandary; to be faced with a difficult choice
• 逃难táo nànto run away from trouble; to flee from calamity; to be a refugee
• 危难wēi nàncalamity
• 患难huàn nàntrials and tribulations
• 空难kōng nànair crash; aviation accident or incident
• 遇难者yù nàn zhěvictim; fatality
• 死难者sǐ nàn zhěvictim of an accident; casualty; martyr for one's country
• 在所难免zài suǒ nán miǎnto be unavoidable (idiom)
• 受难者shòu nàn zhěsufferer; a victim of a calamity; a person in distress
• 左右为难zuǒ yòu wéi nán(idiom) between a rock and a hard place; in a dilemma
• 责难zé nànto censure
• 发难fā nànto rise in revolt; to raise difficult questions

Characters that look like 难

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 维wéito preserve; to maintain; to hold together
• 推tuīto push; to cut; to refuse
• 谁shéiwho; also pr. shuí
• 梅méiplum; plum flower; Japanese apricot (Prunus mume)
• 堆duīto pile up; to heap up; a mass
• 堀kūcave; hole

Sounds the same

Read nán, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 男(bound form) male; baron, the lowest of the five ranks of nobility 五等爵位
• 南south
• 楠Machilus nanmu; Chinese cedar; Chinese giant redwood
• 喃mumble in repetition
• 暔name of a country
• 諵mumble in repetition
• 侽old variant of 男
• 娚old variant of 喃