难
難HSK 1freq #544
Meanings
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- 1.difficult (to...)
- 2.problem
- 3.difficulty
- 4.difficult
- 5.not good
- 1.disaster
- 2.distress
- 3.to scold
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Wiktionary
- 1.to walk gracefully; to move to the measured steps
- 2.used in 猗儺／猗傩 (“beautiful; graceful”)
- 3.to expel demons of illness; to exorcise
- 4.Nuo ceremony
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Etymology
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *naːl): semantic 亻 + phonetic 難 (OC *n̥ʰaːn, *naːns). From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *na (“ill, pain, difficult, evil spirit”).
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Stroke order
Components
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Example sentences
太难了。
It's so hard.
戒烟难。
It's difficult to quit smoking.
戒烟难。
It's hard to quit smoking.
这很难。
This is difficult.
这很难。
It's very difficult.
戒烟难。
It is difficult to give up smoking.
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Derived terms
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