IDENTITY
难nándifficult; hard
HSK 1Top 150
CORE MEANING
difficult; hard
- Part of speech
- adjective
- Register
- neutral
Senses
- 1.difficultHSK1
FORM & BREAKDOWN
- Radical
- 隹bird radical (zhuī)
- strokes
- 10
- Structure
- left-right compound
- IDS sequence
- ⿰又隹
- the hand
- gives the sound nán (historical)
USAGE
Common words
困难kùnnandifficulty
难题nántíhard problem
难过nánguòsad
Graded examples
这道题太难了。Zhè dào tí tài nán le.HSK2
This problem is too hard.
RELATIONS
Lookalike — don’t mix up
- 准
POEM LINES WITH THIS CHARACTER
LEARNING
Memory aid
A hand (又) chasing a bird (隹) — catching it is hard. (From 難.)
- HSK version
- 3.0
- Frequency rank
- #150
- Memory aid
- memory-aid
TRUST & SOURCES
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- AI-assisted editorial review
- Last reviewed
- 2026-08-15
Sources
- CC-CEDICT 2026-01-01
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