困难 kùnnan▶ ความยากลำบาก

Stroke order

困难 is written in 17 strokes across 2 characters.

• 困 — 7 strokes
• 难 — 10 strokes

Senses

1. difficult
2. challenging
3. straitened circumstances
4. difficult situation

Example sentences

• 我们在工作中遇到了不少困难。Wǒmen zài gōngzuò zhōng yùdào le bù shǎo kùnnan.We met quite a few difficulties in our work.
• 生活再困难，他也没有放弃。Shēnghuó zài kùnnan, tā yě méiyǒu fàngqì.However difficult life was, he never gave up.

Related words

• 困ง่วงนอน
• 难受ไม่สบาย, อึดอัด
• 难道อาจกล่าวได้ว่า
• 难ยาก
• 难免หลีกเลี่ยงไม่ได้
• 难怪ไม่น่าแปลกใจ

困难 is pronounced kùnnan and means “ความยากลำบาก”. You will meet it in HSK 4, a band of the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi — the standard test of Chinese proficiency. Most learners can pick 困难 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.