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charactercopypronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *难* | 难* | *难
difficult (to...) / problem / difficulty / difficult / not good
HSK 1
difficult / challenging / straitened circumstances / difficult situation
HSK 3
difficult / hard / challenging
HSK 5
disaster; catastrophe
HSK 5
to feel embarrassed or awkward / to make things difficult (for someone) / to find things difficult (to do or manage)
HSK 5
suffering
HSK 7-9
to perish / to be killed
HSK 7-9
to take refuge; to seek asylum
HSK 7-9
to be hard on sb; to deliberately make things difficult / Taiwan pr. [diao1nan2]
HSK 7-9
air crash / aviation accident or incident
HSK 7-9
a torment / a trial / tribulation / a cross (to bear) / well-tried
HSK 7-9
calamity
(idiom) between a rock and a hard place / in a dilemma
charactercopypronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *难* | 难* | *难
disaster / distress / to scold
trials and tribulations
to suffer a calamity / to suffer (e.g. under torture) / distress
hard to understand / difficult to deal with / knotty / complicated
to meet with misfortune / to fall into dire straits
to rise in revolt / to raise difficult questions
to tackle a difficult job (idiom) / to do sth reluctantly
great catastrophe
to resolve a difficult situation and leave worries behind (idiom)
misfortune / crisis / grave danger / critical situation / disaster / emergency / to be zealous in helping others out of a predicament
to be daunted by challenges
perils of the sea
calamity
no room to advance or to retreat (idiom); without any way out of a dilemma / trapped / in an impossible situation
national calamity
countless difficulties / extremely difficult / against all odds
to run into misfortune
mining disaster
to die in an accident / to die for a just cause
to run away from trouble / to flee from calamity / to be a refugee
extremely difficult / hard and dangerous / challenging
extremely difficult / even more difficult
to overcome all obstacles / to overcome countless difficulties
to feel embarrassed / to feel awkward
(idiom) to put up innumerable obstacles; to create all kinds of difficulties
to censure
to sacrifice oneself in a just cause / a victim of a disaster
to be plagued with misfortunes / precarious
to force someone to do something
to die in an accident or disaster / to be killed
reproof / blame
to meet with disaster / killed / in the clutches of the enemy / to fall foul of / in danger
extremely difficult
to sacrifice one's wealth to save the state (idiom)
return what you borrowed on time, you may borrow again next time (idiom)
extremely difficult / even more difficult
dilemma / quandary / to face a difficult choice
inconvenient / difficult for some reason / to find sth embarrassing
anxious to help others resolve difficulties (idiom)
to debate / to retort / to refute
in peril / facing disaster
to make sth difficult / to create obstacles
to blame
to take refuge / to seek refuge from disaster
every beginning is difficult (idiom) / getting started is always the hardest part
dysphagia (medicine)
easy to grasp but difficult to put into practice (idiom) / easier said than done
to rescue / rescue (operation, workers)
it's easier to invite the devil in than to send him away
Prince Ananda, cousin of the Buddha and his closest disciple
retort with challenging questions / debate
to make do in difficult circumstances by being resourceful / (of circumstances) difficult / challenging / (of a budget) tight / (of a man-made thing) makeshift / rough and ready
to go through thick and thin together (idiom)
dysphagia (medicine)
lit. at home, one can spend a thousand days in comfort, but spending a day away from home can be challenging (idiom) / fig. there's no place like home
(idiom) extravagance comes easily, frugality is difficult
(classical) (of soldiers etc) resolute in the face of adversity
mountain accident
(idiom) between a rock and a hard place / in a dilemma
to tackle a thorny problem and overcome its challenges
political asylum
lit. even harder than reaching the sky (idiom) / fig. extremely difficult / far from an easy task
(idiom) it is easy to go from frugality to extravagance; the reverse is not so easy
to find sth increasingly difficult
the first step is the hardest (idiom)
to seek refuge from calamities
no room to advance or to retreat (idiom); without any way out of a dilemma / trapped / in an impossible situation
(Tw) evacuation to an air-raid shelter
to thwart / to impede
to be faced with problems
variant of 磨難|磨难


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