難
difficult; impossible; trouble; accident; defect
18 strokes. Taught in grade 6. Newspaper frequency rank 330.
Readings
- ナン (on reading): 困難 (こんなん) difficulty; 難易度 (なんいど) degree of difficulty
- むずかしい (kun reading): 難しい (むずかしい) difficult; 気難しい (きむずかしい) hard to please
- がたい (kun reading): 難い (がたい) very difficult to ...
- かたい (kun reading): 有難迷惑 (ありがためいわく) unwelcome favor; 難い (かたい) difficult
- むづかしい (kun reading)
- むつかしい (kun reading)
- にくい (kun reading): 説き難い (ときにくい) difficult to explain
- Read as a whole word: 難波 (なにわ) Naniwa (former name for Osaka region); 難波潟 (なにわがた) Naniwa Bay (old name for Osaka Bay)
Components
- 艹
- 口
- 夫
- 隹
- 二 radical two
- 亠 radical lid
- 口 radical mouth
- 大 radical big
- ⺾ radical grass, top form of 艸
- 隹 radical short-tailed bird
Kanji containing 難
Words using 難
- 困難 (こんなん) difficulty
- 難易度 (なんいど) degree of difficulty
- 非難 (ひなん) criticism
- 避難 (ひなん) taking refuge
- 難民 (なんみん) refugee
- 難しい (むずかしい) difficult
- 気難しい (きむずかしい) hard to please
- 難しさ (むずかしさ) (degree of) difficulty
- 小難しい (こむずかしい) slightly difficult
- しょ難しい (しょむずかしい) terribly difficult
- 難い (がたい) very difficult to ...
- 難波 (なにわ) Naniwa (former name for Osaka region)
- 難波潟 (なにわがた) Naniwa Bay (old name for Osaka Bay)
- 有難迷惑 (ありがためいわく) unwelcome favor
- 難い (かたい) difficult
- 及び難い (およびがたい) hard to attain to
- 得難い (えがたい) hard to get
- 曰く言い難し (いわくいいがたし) it is hard to explain
- 説き難い (ときにくい) difficult to explain
299 words in all.