The kanji 難: meaning, readings and stroke order
難
- Meaning
- difficult, trouble
- On reading
- ナン nan
- Kun reading
- かた(い) katai、むずか(しい) muzukashii
- Strokes
- 18
- Radical
- 隹 small bird
- Level
- Level 6 · grade 6
- Old form
- 難
Stroke order
Meaning in other languages
- Vietnamese
- khó, tai nạn (nan)
- Japanese
- むずかしい。わざわい。
- Korean
- 어렵다, 어려움 (난)
- Chinese
- 难、困难 (难)
Readings, words and example sentences
ナン nan · on reading
困難
difficulty, hard times
みんなで 困難を のりこえます。
We get through hard times together.
かた(い) katai · kun reading · less common
信じ難い
hard to believe
それは 信じ難い 話です。
That story is hard to believe.
むずか(しい) muzukashii · kun reading
難しい
difficult, hard
この 問題は 少し 難しいです。
This problem is a little hard.
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Readings, radicals: Kanjium, KANJIDIC2 (CC BY-SA 4.0); strokes: KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0); Korean, simplified forms: Unicode Unihan. Meanings, sentences: Dino Kids (CC0). See Licences.