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charactercopypronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *难* | 难* | *难
difficult (to...) / problem / difficulty / difficult / not good
HSK 1
ugly / unsightly
HSK 2
to feel sad / to feel unwell / (of life) to be difficult
HSK 2
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
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
difficult / hard / challenging
HSK 5
hard to (predict, imagine etc)
HSK 5
seldom / rare / hard to come by
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
unforgettable
HSK 6
suffering
HSK 7-9
difficulty
HSK 7-9
hard to tell (i.e. hard to judge or hard to predict) / cannot bring oneself to say it
HSK 7-9
to perish / to be killed
HSK 7-9
difficulty / crisis
HSK 7-9
refuge / to take refuge / to seek asylum (political etc)
HSK 7-9
to be hard on sb; to deliberately make things difficult / Taiwan pr. [diao1 nan2]
HSK 7-9
trouble; difficulty; problem
HSK 7-9
air crash / aviation accident or incident
HSK 7-9
embarrassed
HSK 7-9
(it's) no wonder (that...) / (it's) not surprising (that)
HSK 7-9
hard to believe / incredible
HSK 7-9
a torment / a trial / tribulation / a cross (to bear) / well-tried
HSK 7-9
hard to take / embarrassed
HSK 7-9
to raise a tough question
HSK 7-9
rarely seen
HSK 7-9
calamity
refugee
a hidden trouble hard to mention (idiom) / sth too embarrassing to mention / an embarrassing illness
(idiom) between a rock and a hard place / in a dilemma
charactercopypronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *难* | 难* | *难
disaster / distress / to scold
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?
trials and tribulations
to suffer a calamity / to suffer (e.g. under torture) / distress
extremely difficult / even more difficult
To enjoy blessings and endure misfortune together (idiom); for better or for worse
hard to understand / difficult to deal with / knotty / complicated
difficult birth / (fig.) difficult to achieve
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)
difficult to understand
to meet with misfortune / to fall into dire straits
to rise in revolt / to raise difficult questions
untold dangers and difficulties (idiom)
to tackle a difficult job (idiom) / to do sth reluctantly
so many that the bamboo slats have been exhausted / innumerable crimes (idiom) / see also 罄筆難書|罄笔难书
great catastrophe
unable to move a single step (idiom) / to be in an (extremely) difficult situation
unpalatable
to baffle / to confound / to stump
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
unpleasant smell / stink
to show signs of reluctance or embarrassment
calamity
hard to solve / hard to dispel / hard to understand / hard to undo
to be unavoidable (idiom)
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
it's difficult to please everyone (idiom)
to die in an accident / to die for a just cause
to run away from trouble / to flee from calamity / to be a refugee
loath to part (idiom); emotionally close and unwilling to separate
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
rare and precious / valuable / remarkable
(idiom) one cannot afford to incur public wrath / it is dangerous to incur the anger of the masses
hard to fathom
extremely rare (idiom) / once in a blue moon
(of pain or hardship) hard to bear
hard to say / can't guarantee / difficult to protect / difficult to preserve
extremely difficult / hard and dangerous / challenging
to be too embarrassed to mention sth (idiom) / to find it hard to speak about sth
if you ride a tiger, it's hard to get off (idiom); fig. impossible to stop halfway
to overcome all obstacles / to overcome countless difficulties
to baffle; to stump
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
a nobleman's word is his bond (proverb)
to feel embarrassed / to feel awkward
(idiom) to put up innumerable obstacles; to create all kinds of difficulties
hard to explain in a few words (idiom); complicated and not easy to express succinctly
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
to just escape from calamity
to meet with disaster / killed / in the clutches of the enemy / to fall foul of / in danger
to censure
cannot escape censure (idiom) / has to bear the blame
to sacrifice oneself in a just cause / a victim of a disaster
to be plagued with misfortunes / precarious
It's hard to clap with only one hand. / It takes two to tango / It's difficult to achieve anything without support.

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