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

disaster / catastrophe
perils of the sea
to sacrifice oneself in a just cause / a victim of a disaster
victim of an accident / casualty / martyr for one's country
to die in an accident / to die for a just cause
to sacrifice one's wealth to save the state (idiom)
there are no rivers to one who has crossed the ocean, and no clouds to one who has passed Mount Wu (idiom) / one who has seen the world doesn't stop at small things
lit. even harder than reaching the sky (idiom) / fig. extremely difficult / far from an easy task
rivers and mountains are easy to change, man's character much harder
it is easier to change mountains and rivers than to alter one's character (idiom) / you can't change who you are / Can the leopard change his spots?
hard to forget even after one's teeth fall out (idiom); to remember a benefactor as long as one lives / undying gratitude
it is hard to escape the net of justice (idiom)
like a clay Bodhisattva fording a river, can't guarantee his own safety / unable to save oneself, let alone others
even an honest and upright official will have difficulty resolving a family dispute (proverb)
water once spilt cannot be retrieved (idiom); irreversible change
return what you borrowed on time, you may borrow again next time (idiom)
To enjoy blessings and endure misfortune together (idiom); for better or for worse
It is hard to change one's essential nature (idiom). You can't change who you are. / Can the leopard change his spots? (Jeremiah 13:23)
enigmatic knot hard to untie (idiom); thorny problem / intractable difficulty

Sentences with 難

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