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难
難
nán
1.
difficult (to...)
2.
problem
3.
difficulty
4.
difficult
5.
not good
HSK 3
Very Common • Top 0%
Character Breakdown (Single character)
Compound Words (20)
便难
biànnàn
retort with challenging questions
两难
liǎngnán
dilemma
刁难
diāonàn
to be hard on sb
劫难
jiénàn
calamity
危难
wēinàn
calamity
受难
shòunàn
to suffer a calamity
困难
kùnnan
difficult
大难
dànàn
great catastrophe
山难
shānnàn
mountain accident
急难
jínàn
misfortune
患难
huànnàn
trials and tribulations
救难
jiùnán
to rescue
死难
sǐnàn
to die in an accident
殉难
xùnnàn
to sacrifice oneself in a just cause
海难
hǎinàn
perils of the sea
灾难
zāinàn
disaster
为难
wéinán
to feel embarrassed or awkward
犯难
fànnán
to feel embarrassed
留难
liúnàn
to make sth difficult
疑难
yínán
hard to understand
Example Sentences (10)
保护地球环境，并不是一件离我们很远、很难做到的事情。
Bǎohù dìqiú huánjìng, bìng bú shì yí jiàn lí wǒmen hěn yuǎn, hěn nán zuò dào de shìqíng.
Protecting the Earth's environment is not something far from us or hard to do.
Text 5
我觉得数学比历史难多了，我听不懂。
Wǒ juéde shùxué bǐ lìshǐ nán duō le, wǒ tīng bù dǒng.
I think math is much harder than history. I can't understand it.
Text 2
有些问题看上去很难，但是做起来非常简单，所以得试着做做。
Yǒuxiē wèntí kàn shàngqù hěn nán, dànshì zuò qǐlái fēicháng jiǎndān, suǒyǐ děi shìzhe zuòzuo.
Some problems look difficult, but are very easy to do, so you should try doing them.
Text 4
今天这些题特别难，我看不懂，不会做，你能帮我吗？
Jīntiān zhèxiē tí tèbié nán, wǒ kàn bù dǒng, bú huì zuò, nǐ néng bāng wǒ ma?
These problems are especially hard today. I can't understand them and don't know how to do them. Can you help me?
Text 2
这次主要是因为我先做了比较难、比较复杂的题，结果花了太多时间，后面简单的题我没做完，可是时间来不及，最后只好放弃了。
Zhè cì zhǔyào shì yīnwèi wǒ xiān zuò le bǐjiào nán, bǐjiào fùzá de tí, jiéguǒ huā le tài duō shíjiān, hòumiàn jiǎndān de tí wǒ méi zuòwán, kěshì shíjiān lái bù jí, zuìhòu zhǐhǎo fàngqì le.
This time it was mainly because I first did the harder, more complex problems, which took too much time. After that I didn’t finish the easy ones, but there wasn’t enough time, and in the end I had to give up.
Text 2
有些问题看上去虽然简单，但是解决起来难极了。
Yǒuxiē wèntí kàn shàngqù suīrán jiǎndān, dànshì jiějué qǐlái nán jíle.
Some problems look simple, but are extremely hard to solve.
Text 4
我原来以为做生意很简单，后来才发现其实并不容易，现在赚钱越来越难了。
Wǒ yuánlái yǐwéi zuò shēngyi hěn jiǎndān, hòulái cái fāxiàn qíshí bìng bù róngyì, xiànzài zhuànqián yuèláiyuè nán le.
I used to think doing business was very simple, but later I realized it's actually not easy, and now making money is getting harder and harder.
Text 3
可不是！上班堵车怕迟到，下班堵车怕回家晚。每天在马路上开车，要想不遇到堵车，还真难。
Kě búshì! Shàngbān dǔchē pà chídào, xiàbān dǔchē pà huíjiā wǎn. Měitiān zài mǎlù shàng kāichē, yào xiǎng bú yùdào dǔchē, hái zhēn nán.
Exactly! Traffic jams on the way to work make you worry about being late, and traffic jams after work make you worry about getting home late. Driving on the road every day, it's really hard not to run into a traffic jam.
Text 3
一个人即便能力再高，经验再丰富，如果对工作没有责任心，也很难把工作做好。
Yí gè rén jíbiàn nénglì zài gāo, jīngyàn zài fēngfù, rúguǒ duì gōngzuò méiyǒu zérènxīn, yě hěn nán bǎ gōngzuò zuò hǎo.
Even if a person is highly capable and very experienced, if they lack a sense of responsibility for their work, it is still hard to do the job well.
Text 5
不过，我们一定要相信：多么难的问题，都会被解决的。
Búguò, wǒmen yídìng yào xiāngxìn: duōme nán de wèntí, dōu huì bèi jiějué de.
However, we must believe: no matter how difficult the problems are, they will all be solved.
Text 4
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Metadata
- Category
- Chinese
- HSK Character Level
- 3
- Character Frequency Rank
- 294
- Word Frequency Rank
- 264 of 84,292