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charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *难* | 难* | *难
difficult (to...) / problem / difficulty / difficult / not good
HSK 1
difficult / challenging / straitened circumstances / difficult situation
HSK 3
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
difficult / hard / challenging
HSK 5
to take refuge; to seek asylum
HSK 7-9
to perish / to be killed
HSK 7-9
suffering
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
to be hard on sb; to deliberately make things difficult / Taiwan pr. [diao1nan2]
HSK 7-9
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *难* | 难* | *难
disaster / distress / to scold
(idiom) between a rock and a hard place / in a dilemma
to suffer a calamity / to suffer (e.g. under torture) / distress
to meet with misfortune / to fall into dire straits
great catastrophe
misfortune / crisis / grave danger / critical situation / disaster / emergency / to be zealous in helping others out of a predicament
to be daunted by challenges
to rise in revolt / to raise difficult questions
perils of the sea
calamity
calamity
hard to understand / difficult to deal with / knotty / complicated
dilemma / quandary / to face a difficult choice
trials and tribulations
mining disaster
to run away from trouble / to flee from calamity / to be a refugee
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
(idiom) to put up innumerable obstacles; to create all kinds of difficulties
extremely difficult / even more difficult
to overcome all obstacles / to overcome countless difficulties
to tackle a difficult job (idiom) / to do sth reluctantly
to feel embarrassed / to feel awkward
to be plagued with misfortunes / precarious
reproof / blame
to die in an accident or disaster / to be killed
to censure
extremely difficult
return what you borrowed on time, you may borrow again next time (idiom)
to sacrifice oneself in a just cause / a victim of a disaster
extremely difficult / even more difficult
in peril / facing disaster
inconvenient / difficult for some reason / to find sth embarrassing
to sacrifice one's wealth to save the state (idiom)
to make sth difficult / to create obstacles
to debate / to retort / to refute
national calamity
anxious to help others resolve difficulties (idiom)
to take refuge / to seek refuge from disaster
to blame
every beginning is difficult (idiom) / getting started is always the hardest part
variant of 磨難|磨难
mountain accident
easy to grasp but difficult to put into practice (idiom) / easier said than done
(classical) (of soldiers etc) resolute in the face of adversity
(idiom) it is easy to go from frugality to extravagance; the reverse is not so easy
Prince Ananda, cousin of the Buddha and his closest disciple
dysphagia (medicine)
political asylum
to tackle a thorny problem and overcome its challenges
to rescue / rescue (operation, workers)
the first step is the hardest (idiom)
it's easier to invite the devil in than to send him away
to be faced with problems
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) between a rock and a hard place / in a dilemma
to force someone to do something
to die in an accident / to die for a just cause
lit. even harder than reaching the sky (idiom) / fig. extremely difficult / far from an easy task
countless difficulties / extremely difficult / against all odds
to meet with disaster / killed / in the clutches of the enemy / to fall foul of / in danger
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
to run into misfortune
(Tw) evacuation to an air-raid shelter
to thwart / to impede


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