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Kanji Detail for 難 - "difficult, blame"

難

  • Meaning

    難 means "difficult, blame." Also associated with misfortune.

    1. Difficult - Hard; challenging.

    2. Disaster - Suffering; hardship.

  • Words using 難

    • 難民 なんみん Listen refugee; displaced person; person inconvenienced by (lack of something, etc.)
    • 困難 こんなん Listen difficulty; hardship; trouble
    • 避難 ひなん Listen taking refuge; finding shelter; evacuation
    • 非難 ひなん Listen criticism; blame; censure
    • 難色 なんしょく Listen disapproval; reluctance; unwillingness
    • 避難民 ひなんみん Listen evacuees; displaced persons; refugees
    • 難しい むずかしい Listen difficult; hard; troublesome
    • 難問 なんもん Listen perplexity; difficult question; difficult problem

  • Four-character idioms with 難

    • 無理難題 むりなんだい Listen unreasonable demand
    • 七難八苦 しちなんはっく Listen the Seven Misfortunes and Eight Pains; a series of disasters
    • 前途多難 ぜんとたなん Listen having many difficulties in store; grim prospects
    • 多事多難 たじたなん Listen various difficulties
    • 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

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    • Verified meaning: difficult, blame
    • Official Jōyō kanji — a standard character every Japanese reader recognises
    • Also carries these associations: misfortune

    A single kanji rarely maps one-to-one onto an English word. Read the meanings and associations above as a set — a character that fits the dictionary definition can still carry a connotation you did not intend.

  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    difficult; impossible; trouble; accident; defect

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    difficult, arduous, hard; unable

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    difficult (to...); problem; difficulty; difficult; not good

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    hard, difficult, arduous; unable

    XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary

    The opposite of easy. Accomplishing something through toil, either taking time or effort. | A matter of worry, danger, or distress. As in 落難 (fall into distress), 避難 (take refuge). | To question. As in raising objections to inconsistencies and demanding a clear answer is called 發難 (raise difficulties).

  • Onyomi

    tip

    nan(ナン) ナン

  • Kunyomi

    tip

    gata.i(がた-い) がた-い

    kata.i(かた-い) かた-い

    muduka.shii(むでゅか-しい) むでゅか-しい

    mutsuka.shii(むつか-しい) むつか-しい

    muzukashii(むずか-しい) むずか-しい

    nikui(にく-い) にく-い

  • Strokes

    tip

    18 strokes

  • Radical

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    隹 (furutori)

  • Related Keywords

    difficult misfortune blame disaster abundant foliage fault reproach sorrow war conflict strife arduous challenging demanding hard laborious problematic suffering tough

Sentences including 難

  • This book is too difficult to understand.

  • I cannot find fault with him.

  • It is difficult for me.

  • It is difficult for me to solve that problem.

  • This book is especially difficult to read.

  • English is difficult to learn.

  • It's very difficult to put things in order.

  • It's difficult to learn a foreign language.

  • Easier said than done.

  • The typhoon made that difficult.

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