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Kanji Detail for 艱 - "trouble, suffer, hard, steep"
艱
- Meaning
艱 means "trouble, suffer, hard, steep."
Trouble - Suffering; difficulty.
Suffer - To be troubled; to struggle.
Hard - Difficult.
Steep - Rugged; precipitous.
- Dictionary Citations
The meaning above is based on the following sources:
KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary
difficult; trying; be distressed; parent's funeral ceremony; mourning; perilous
Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters
difficult, hard; distressing
CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary
difficult; hard; hardship
Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data
difficult, hard; hardship
XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary
艱難 (difficult). When a matter has many obstacles and is hard to proceed with, it is called 艱. Finding a task troublesome is called 艱. | Sorrow. Being in mourning for parents is called 丁憂. Also written as 丁艱.
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