为难 wéinán▶ Avergonzado

Stroke order

为难 is written in 14 strokes across 2 characters.

• 为 — 4 strokes
• 难 — 10 strokes

Senses

1. to feel embarrassed or awkward
2. to make things difficult (for someone)
3. to find things difficult (to do or manage)

Related words

• 为期para una fecha determinada
• 人为artificial
• 灾难desastre
• 艰难difícil
• 难堪Avergonzado
• 难得raro, escaso

为难 is pronounced wéinán and means “Avergonzado”. You will meet it in HSK 6, a band of the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi — the standard test of Chinese proficiency. Most learners can pick 为难 out of a list long before they can reach for it unprompted, and the gap between those two closes only with repeated recall. LexiTrail schedules the next sighting from how well you did on the last.