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

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a video game which is almost impossible to beat.

= + : Just inside the anthill's kitchen, Napoleon and a sparrow are trying to beat an insanely difficult video game. After playing and failing all day long Napoleon finally loses his temper and crashes the game wearing two boxing gloves.
disaster / distress / to scold

難 character breakdown

clay / old variant of 僅|仅[jin3] / violet (plant)

= + : Joan of Arc (ji) is throwing violet (堇) clay (堇) and dirt (土) at the king's cow hide (革) in the encampment ((e)n3).
short-tailed bird

= + : A sparrow. Julian Giant Squid often visits the sparrows living in front of the Eiffel Tower, and plays his flute for them.

Characters with 難 as component

beach / shoal / rapids / CL:片[pian4] / classifier for liquids: pool, puddle

= + : Tecumseh (t) has been trying to beat a difficult computer game (难) sitting on the beach (滩) in front of the anthill (an1) all day. Frustrated he finally empties a bottle of water (氵) over the console and throws it into the ocean.
to spread out / vendor's stand

= + : Tecumseh (t) set up his vendor's stand (摊) in front of the anthill (an1). He is displaying his video games (难) by spreading them out (摊) dangling from toy claws (扌).
paralyzed

= + : In front of the anthill (an1) Tecumseh (t) is trying to beat an impossible game (难). He gets so frustrated that he first develops a colorful rash (疒) and ends up completely paralyzed (瘫).
to exorcise demons
stand in awe

Words with 難

don't tell me ... / could it be that...?
to feel sad / to feel unwell / (of life) to be difficult
difficulty / crisis
difficult problem
hard to tell (i.e. hard to judge or hard to predict) / cannot bring oneself to say it
if you ride a tiger, it's hard to get off (idiom); fig. impossible to stop halfway
extremely difficult / hard and dangerous / challenging
reproof / blame
national calamity
hard to get to / difficult to travel (i.e. the road is bad)
cannot escape censure (idiom) / has to bear the blame
It is hard to escape the dragnet of the law / the long arm of the law
war of 1402 between successors of the first Ming Emperor
to show signs of reluctance or embarrassment
variant of 磨難|磨难[mo2 nan4]
The Yellow Emperor's Classic of Eighty-one Difficulties, medical text, c. 1st century AD

Sentences with 難

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