难堪 nánkān▶ Malu

Stroke order

难堪 is written in 22 strokes across 2 characters.

• 难 — 10 strokes
• 堪 — 12 strokes

Senses

1. hard to take
2. embarrassed

Related words

• 不堪tidak tahan
• 为难Malu
• 灾难bencana
• 艰难sulit
• 难得langka
• 难能可贵Terpuji atas perilaku baik

难堪 is pronounced nánkān and means “Malu”. You will meet it in HSK 6, a band of the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi — the standard test of Chinese proficiency. Most learners can pick 难堪 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.