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Hanzi Character Search: 艱

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difficult, hard; distressing
Radical
Strokes (without radical) 11 Total Strokes 17
Mandarin reading jiān Cantonese reading gaan1
Japanese on reading kan ken Japanese kun reading nayamu katai
Korean reading kan Vietnamese reading gian
Simplified Variant(s)

CEDICT Entries:

   [ jiān ]    difficult, hard, hardship
   [ jiān ]    arduous, terrible (task), very difficult, formidable
   [ jiān xìng ]    arduousness, formidability, difficulty
   [ jiān shēn ]    abstruse, complicated
   [ jiān shēn huì ]    abstruse and unfathomable (idiom)
   [ jiān ]    difficult, hard, arduous
   [ jiān fèn doù ]    to struggle arduously
   [ jiān ]    leading a plain, hardworking life (idiom)
   [ jiān xīn ]    hardships, arduous, difficult
   [ jiān xiǎn ]    difficult and dangerous, hardships and perils
   [ jiān nán ]    difficult, hard, challenging
   [ jiān nán xiǎn ]    untold dangers and difficulties (idiom)
⇒    [ dīng jiān ]    (literary) to be in mourning after the death of a parent
⇒    [ jiān xiǎn ]    shrink or flinch from no difficulty or danger, make light of difficulties and dangers
⇒    [ rén jiān chaī ]    life is hard enough as it is; don't burst my bubble (Internet slang)
⇒    [ weí jiān ]    to have difficulty walking (idiom), to walk with difficulty
⇒    [ weí jiān ]    to make progress only with great difficulty (idiom)

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