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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

Stroke order of 难

难

  • nán difficult (to...); problem
  • nàn disaster; distress
  • 10 strokes
  • Traditional form: 難

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 难

  1. nán Traditional 難
    • difficult (to...)
    • problem
    • difficulty
    • difficult
    • not good
  2. 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

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

Words with 难

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

  • 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

  • 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

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).