难 (nán): meaning and stroke order
难 (nán) means difficult (to...), problem, difficulty, difficult, not good, disaster, distress, to scold.
难
- Simplified
- 难
- Traditional
- 難
- Pinyin
- nán · nàn
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Stroke order of 难
难
- nán difficult (to...); problem
- nàn disaster; distress
- 10 strokes
- Traditional form: 難
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Meaning of 难
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nán
Traditional 難
- difficult (to...)
- problem
- difficulty
- difficult
- not good
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nàn
Traditional 難
- disaster
- distress
- to scold
Radical and structure
- 难
- Radical 隹 (Kangxi radical 172) · 10 strokes · 又 on the left, 隹 on the right
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Words with 难
- 难过 nán guò to feel sad; to feel unwell
- 难道 nán dào don't tell me ...; could it be that...?
- 灾难 zāi nàn disaster; catastrophe
- 困难 kùn nan difficult; challenging
- 难怪 nán guài (it's) no wonder (that...); (it's) not surprising (that)
- 难免 nán miǎn hard to avoid; difficult to escape from
- 难忘 nán wàng unforgettable
难 in our stories
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老爷爷不好意思地说:“我的腿不太好,靠窗的座位太难进了。”
lǎoyéye bù hǎoyìsi de shuō wǒ de tuǐ bú tài hǎo kào chuāng de zuòwèi tài nán jìn le
The old man says apologetically, "My leg isn't very good, and the window seat is too hard to get into."
From the story The train to Xi'an HSK 3
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别的鱼都说:“太难了,我们跳不过去。”
biéde yú dōu shuō tài nán le wǒmen tiào bú guòqu
The other fish all said, "It's too hard. We can't jump over it."
From the story The little carp's decision HSK 3
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骆驰走到窗边看了看:窗外有一根水管,爬上来并不难。
Luò Chí zǒu dào chuāng biān kàn le kàn chuāngwài yǒu yì gēn shuǐguǎn pá shànglai bìngbù nán
Luo Chi went to the window and looked out: there was a drainpipe outside, so climbing up would not be hard.
From the story The dry floor HSK 6
Stories using 难
- The train to Xi'an HSK 3
- The little carp's decision HSK 3
- The dry floor HSK 6
- The market hearing HSK 7–9 · Level 8
Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).