难 nán▶ ยาก

Stroke order

难 is written in 10 strokes.

• 难

Senses

1. difficult (to...)
2. problem
3. difficulty
4. difficult
5. not good

Example sentences

• 这个问题很难。Zhège wèntí hěn nán.This question is very difficult.
• 学好外语并不难。Xuéhǎo wàiyǔ bìng bù nán.Learning a foreign language well is not difficult.

Related words

• 难过เศร้า
• 困难ความยากลำบาก
• 难受ไม่สบาย, อึดอัด
• 难道อาจกล่าวได้ว่า
• 难免หลีกเลี่ยงไม่ได้
• 难怪ไม่น่าแปลกใจ

难 is pronounced nán and means “ยาก”. You will meet it in HSK 3, a band of the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi — the standard test of Chinese proficiency. Most learners can pick 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.