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charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *难* | 难* | *难
difficult (to...) / problem / difficulty / difficult / not good
HSK 1
to feel unwell / to suffer pain / to be difficult to bear
HSK 2
difficult problem
HSK 2
to feel sad / to feel unwell / (of life) to be difficult
HSK 2
unpleasant to hear / coarse / vulgar / offensive / shameful
HSK 2
ugly / unsightly
HSK 2
degree of difficulty
HSK 3
difficult / challenging / straitened circumstances / difficult situation
HSK 3
don't tell me ... / could it be that...?
HSK 3
hard to avoid / difficult to escape from / will inevitably
HSK 4
disaster; catastrophe
HSK 5
hard to (predict, imagine etc)
HSK 5
to feel embarrassed or awkward / to make things difficult (for someone) / to find things difficult (to do or manage)
HSK 5
difficult / hard / challenging
HSK 5
seldom / rare / hard to come by
HSK 5
unforgettable
HSK 6
difficulty
HSK 7-9
to take refuge; to seek asylum
HSK 7-9
trouble; difficulty; problem
HSK 7-9
to perish / to be killed
HSK 7-9
suffering
HSK 7-9
hard to tell (i.e. hard to judge or hard to predict) / cannot bring oneself to say it
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
difficulty / crisis
HSK 7-9
embarrassed
HSK 7-9
to be hard on sb; to deliberately make things difficult / Taiwan pr. [diao1nan2]
HSK 7-9
(idiom) hard to believe; incredible
HSK 7-9
(it's) no wonder (that...) / (it's) not surprising (that)
HSK 7-9
hard to take / embarrassed
HSK 7-9
rarely seen
HSK 7-9
to raise a tough question
HSK 7-9
lit. easy to dodge the spear in the open, hard to avoid a stab in the dark (idiom); it is hard to guard against secret conspiracies
a refuge; a haven; a sanctuary
hard to say / can't guarantee / difficult to protect / difficult to preserve
victim / fatality
perils of the sea
extremely difficult
to rescue / rescue (operation, workers)
calamity
(idiom) between a rock and a hard place / in a dilemma
to meet with great difficulties but pull through
dubious or hard-to-treat cases (medicine) / hard cases
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *难* | 难* | *难
disaster / distress / to scold
old habits are hard to change (idiom)
to suffer a calamity / to suffer (e.g. under torture) / distress
lit. as difficult to count as hair pulled from sb's head (idiom) / fig. innumerable (crimes)
It is hard to escape the dragnet of the law / the long arm of the law
misfortune / crisis / grave danger / critical situation / disaster / emergency / to be zealous in helping others out of a predicament
reproof / blame
every family has its problems (idiom)
(of pain or hardship) hard to bear
hard to explain in a few words (idiom); complicated and not easy to express succinctly
to meet with misfortune / to fall into dire straits
to run away from trouble / to flee from calamity / to be a refugee
great catastrophe
to be daunted by challenges
to rise in revolt / to raise difficult questions
untold dangers and difficulties (idiom)
calamity
unpalatable
dysphagia (medicine)
hard to understand / difficult to deal with / knotty / complicated
it's easier to invite the devil in than to send him away
dilemma / quandary / to face a difficult choice
to baffle / to confound / to stump
to bother / to press sb, usu. to do sth / it's a tough job / sorry to bother you (polite, used to thank sb for a favor)
hard to endure / unbearable
hard to endure (hot weather, itchiness etc)
trials and tribulations
can't be bought for one thousand in gold (idiom)
refugee
mining disaster
lit. once said, a team of horses cannot unsay it (idiom); a promise must be kept
difficult to understand
unable to move a single step (idiom) / to be in an (extremely) difficult situation
to resolve a difficult situation and leave worries behind (idiom)
extremely difficult / hard and dangerous / challenging
no room to advance or to retreat (idiom); without any way out of a dilemma / trapped / in an impossible situation
to be too embarrassed to mention sth (idiom) / to find it hard to speak about sth
(idiom) to put up innumerable obstacles; to create all kinds of difficulties
extremely rare (idiom) / once in a blue moon
to be facing imminent calamity (idiom) / disaster is looming
hard to solve / hard to dispel / hard to understand / hard to undo
extremely difficult / even more difficult
spilt water is difficult to retrieve (idiom) / it's no use crying over spilt milk / what's done is done and can't be reversed / the damage is done / once divorced, there's no reuniting
to overcome all obstacles / to overcome countless difficulties
lit. hard to differentiate between elder and younger brother (idiom) / fig. one is just as bad as the other
brothers in hardship (idiom) / fellow sufferers / in the same boat
to just escape from calamity
hard to fathom
loath to part (idiom); emotionally close and unwilling to separate
to tackle a difficult job (idiom) / to do sth reluctantly
to feel embarrassed / to feel awkward
lit. even given wings, you couldn't fly (idiom); fig. impossible to escape
rare and precious / valuable / remarkable
cannot escape censure (idiom) / has to bear the blame
to be plagued with misfortunes / precarious
victim of an accident / casualty / martyr for one's country

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