難
難 — nan, na
Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).
- Korean reading
- 어려울 난, 성할 나
- Romanization
- nan, na
- English
- difficult, arduous, hard; unable
- Mandarin
- nán
- Japanese on'yomi
- ナン, ダン, ダ, ナ
- Japanese kun'yomi
- かた.い -がた.い むずか.しい むづか.しい むつか.しい -にく.い
- Japanese usage
- Jōyō kanji
- School grade
- Grade 6
- Newspaper frequency
- #330 of 2,500
- Strokes
- 19
- Radical
- 隹 (172, 11 residual)
- Phonetic component
- 菫
- Unicode
- U+96E3
How 難 was formed
Traditional analysis treats 難 as a phonetic-semantic compound involving 暵, 隹.
Korean example words with 難
- 난점難點 Korean gloss: 곤란한 점
- 극난極難 Korean gloss: 몹시 어려움
- 난독難讀 Korean gloss: 읽기 어려움
- 난망難忘 Korean gloss: 잊기 어려움
- 만난萬難 Korean gloss: 온갖 어려움
- 세난世難 Korean gloss: 세상의 난리
- 난이難易 Korean gloss: 어려움과 쉬움
- 소난小難 Korean gloss: 사소한 어려움
- 격난激難 Korean gloss: 매우 심한 난관
- 난도難道 Korean gloss: 걷기에 힘든 길
- 난보難保 Korean gloss: 보존하기 어려움
- 난색難色 Korean gloss: 비난하려는 낯빛
Definitions from Woorimalsam, National Institute of Korean Language (CC BY-SA 2.0 KR)
Japanese words with 難
- 難民なんみん refugee; displaced person; person inconvenienced by (lack of something, etc.)
- 困難こんなん difficulty; hardship; trouble
- 避難ひなん taking refuge; finding shelter; evacuation
- 非難ひなん criticism; blame; censure
- 難しいむずかしい difficult; hard; troublesome
- 難色なんしょく disapproval; reluctance; unwillingness
- 避難民ひなんみん evacuees; displaced persons; refugees
- 難問なんもん perplexity; difficult question; difficult problem
- 難航なんこう difficult voyage; stormy passage; hard flight
- 難なん difficulty; trouble; hardship
- 難病なんびょう serious disease; intractable disease; difficult-to-recover-from illness
- 盗難とうなん theft; robbery
Characters sharing the phonetic 菫
Most Han characters pair a meaning part with a sound part. Characters sharing a sound part are usually read alike.
Other hanja read “난”
Other hanja with radical 隹
Some glosses are machine-generated. Sources and licences are listed together — sources and licences