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

difficult / challenging / straitened circumstances / difficult situation
to suffer a calamity / to suffer (e.g. under torture) / distress
to just escape from calamity
to be plagued with misfortunes / precarious
sufferer / a victim of a calamity / a person in distress
to cherish wealth and find it hard to give up (idiom); refusing to contribute to charity / skinflint / miserly
lit. at home, one can spend a thousand days in comfort, but spending a day away from home can be challenging (idiom) / fig. there's no place like home
unable to sit or stand still (out of nervousness etc) (idiom)
much hardships may awaken a nation (idiom); calamity that prompts renewal
great catastrophe
one is bound for good fortune after surviving a great disaster (proverb)
to go through thick and thin together (idiom)

Sentences with 難

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