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Kanji Detail for 艱 - "trouble, suffer, hard, steep"

艱

  • Meaning

    艱 means "trouble, suffer, hard, steep."

    1. Trouble - Suffering; difficulty.

    2. Suffer - To be troubled; to struggle.

    3. Hard - Difficult.

    4. Steep - Rugged; precipitous.

  • Four-character idioms with 艱

    • 艱難辛苦 かんなんしんく Listen trial and tribulation; hardships; privations
    • 辛苦艱難 しんくかんなん Listen trials and tribulations; adversities; suffering hardships and troubles

  • 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.

  • Onyomi

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    kan(カン) カン

    ken(ケン) ケン

  • Kunyomi

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    kata.i(かた-い) かた-い

    naya.mi(なやみ) なやみ

    naya.mu(なや-む) なや-む

  • Strokes

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    17 strokes

  • Radical

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    艮 (ushitora・kon・konzukuri・nezukuri)

  • Related Keywords

    trouble suffering difficulty suffer troubled struggle hard difficult steep rugged precipitous

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