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charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *難* | 難* | *難
difficult (to...) / problem / difficulty / difficult / not good
HSK 1
difficult problem
HSK 2
to feel unwell / to suffer pain / to be difficult to bear
HSK 2
unpleasant to hear / coarse / vulgar / offensive / shameful
HSK 2
ugly / unsightly
HSK 2
to feel sad / to feel unwell / (of life) to be difficult
HSK 2
don't tell me ... / could it be that...?
HSK 3
difficult / challenging / straitened circumstances / difficult situation
HSK 3
degree of difficulty
HSK 3
hard to avoid / difficult to escape from / will inevitably
HSK 4
disaster; catastrophe
HSK 5
difficult / hard / challenging
HSK 5
seldom / rare / hard to come by
HSK 5
to feel embarrassed or awkward / to make things difficult (for someone) / to find things difficult (to do or manage)
HSK 5
hard to (predict, imagine etc)
HSK 5
unforgettable
HSK 6
difficulty
HSK 7-9
suffering
HSK 7-9
(it's) no wonder (that...) / (it's) not surprising (that)
HSK 7-9
(idiom) hard to believe; incredible
HSK 7-9
to be hard on sb; to deliberately make things difficult / Taiwan pr. [diao1nan2]
HSK 7-9
hard to take / embarrassed
HSK 7-9
to perish / to be killed
HSK 7-9
difficulty / crisis
HSK 7-9
hard to tell (i.e. hard to judge or hard to predict) / cannot bring oneself to say it
HSK 7-9
rarely seen
HSK 7-9
trouble; difficulty; problem
HSK 7-9
a torment / a trial / tribulation / a cross (to bear) / well-tried
HSK 7-9
embarrassed
HSK 7-9
to raise a tough question
HSK 7-9
to take refuge; to seek asylum
HSK 7-9
air crash / aviation accident or incident
HSK 7-9
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
loath to part (idiom); emotionally close and unwilling to separate
it is easier to change mountains and rivers than to alter one's character (idiom) / you can't change who you are / Can the leopard change his spots?
a refuge; a haven; a sanctuary
difficulty / degree of difficulty or ease
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
lit. an interval of time is worth an ounce of gold, money cannot buy you time (saying) / fig. time is precious
to cherish wealth and find it hard to give up (idiom); refusing to contribute to charity / skinflint / miserly
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
hard to distinguish real from imitation
hard to explain in a few words (idiom); complicated and not easy to express succinctly
hard to endure (hot weather, itchiness etc)
to run away from trouble / to flee from calamity / to be a refugee
to feel embarrassed / to feel awkward
to rise in revolt / to raise difficult questions
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *難* | 難* | *難
disaster / distress / to scold
hard to solve / hard to dispel / hard to understand / hard to undo
unpalatable
calamity
hard to understand / difficult to deal with / knotty / complicated
to rescue / rescue (operation, workers)
(usu. of people) difficult / demanding / troublesome / unreasonable / hard to deal with
dubious or hard-to-treat cases (medicine) / hard cases
Is it possible that ... ?
hard to say / can't guarantee / difficult to protect / difficult to preserve
to be unavoidable (idiom)
to die in an accident / to die for a just cause
hard to deal with / hard to get along with
unpleasant smell / stink
misfortune / crisis / grave danger / critical situation / disaster / emergency / to be zealous in helping others out of a predicament
to suffer a calamity / to suffer (e.g. under torture) / distress
extremely difficult / hard and dangerous / challenging
(of pain or hardship) hard to bear
rare and precious / valuable / remarkable
difficult birth / (fig.) difficult to achieve
mountain accident
(idiom) between a rock and a hard place / in a dilemma
extremely rare (idiom) / once in a blue moon
to tackle a difficult job (idiom) / to do sth reluctantly
hard to get to / difficult to travel (i.e. the road is bad)
catastrophic
no room to advance or to retreat (idiom); without any way out of a dilemma / trapped / in an impossible situation
elusive / hard to pin down / enigmatic
hard to fathom
to die in an accident or disaster / to be killed
to meet with misfortune / to fall into dire straits
a hidden trouble hard to mention (idiom) / sth too embarrassing to mention / an embarrassing illness
refugee
to be facing imminent calamity (idiom) / disaster is looming
lit. to sound out the difficulties and retreat to avoid defeat (idiom) / fig. to back out of an awkward situation; to get out on finding out what it's really like
if you ride a tiger, it's hard to get off (idiom); fig. impossible to stop halfway
lit. once said, a team of horses cannot unsay it (idiom); a promise must be kept
sufferer / a victim of a calamity / a person in distress
powerless to defend oneself (idiom); helpless
it's easier to invite the devil in than to send him away
cannot escape censure (idiom) / has to bear the blame
to censure
refugee camp
to resolve a difficult situation and leave worries behind (idiom)
national calamity
countless difficulties / extremely difficult / against all odds
knotty problem / intractable difficulty
extremely difficult
true sentiments are seen in hard times (idiom) / you see who your true friends are when you go through tough times together / you see who your true friends are when you are in 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
lit. cannot rest or eat in peace (idiom) / fig. extremely worried and troubled
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

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