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charactercopypronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *難* | 難* | *難
difficult (to...) / problem / difficulty / difficult / not good
HSK 1
difficult / challenging / straitened circumstances / difficult situation
HSK 3
to feel embarrassed or awkward / to make things difficult (for someone) / to find things difficult (to do or manage)
HSK 5
disaster; catastrophe
HSK 5
difficult / hard / challenging
HSK 5
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. [diao1 nan2]
HSK 7-9
air crash / aviation accident or incident
HSK 7-9
suffering
HSK 7-9
to perish / to be killed
HSK 7-9
refuge / to take refuge / to seek asylum (political etc)
HSK 7-9
calamity
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
(idiom) between a rock and a hard place / in a dilemma
to die in an accident or disaster / to be killed
to force someone to do something
to run away from trouble / to flee from calamity / to be a refugee
charactercopypronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *難* | 難* | *難
disaster / distress / to scold
Prince Ananda, cousin of the Buddha and his closest disciple
national calamity
to censure
to feel embarrassed / to feel awkward
easy to grasp but difficult to put into practice (idiom) / easier said than done
trials and tribulations
perils of the sea
(classical) (of soldiers etc) resolute in the face of adversity
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 rescue / rescue (operation, workers)
calamity
extremely difficult / hard and dangerous / challenging
to rise in revolt / to raise difficult questions
to die in an accident / to die for a just cause
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
to meet with misfortune / to fall into dire straits
to blame
mountain accident
to tackle a difficult job (idiom) / to do sth reluctantly
no room to advance or to retreat (idiom); without any way out of a dilemma / trapped / in an impossible situation
extremely difficult
great catastrophe
countless difficulties / extremely difficult / against all odds
extremely difficult / even more difficult
political asylum
(idiom) to put up innumerable obstacles; to create all kinds of difficulties
to meet with disaster / killed / in the clutches of the enemy / to fall foul of / in danger
lit. even harder than reaching the sky (idiom) / fig. extremely difficult / far from an easy task
the first step is the hardest (idiom)
to debate / to retort / to refute
to thwart / to impede
to be plagued with misfortunes / precarious
to sacrifice one's wealth to save the state (idiom)
(idiom) between a rock and a hard place / in a dilemma
mining disaster
to resolve a difficult situation and leave worries behind (idiom)
extremely difficult / even more difficult
to overcome all obstacles / to overcome countless difficulties
to sacrifice oneself in a just cause / a victim of a disaster
inconvenient / difficult for some reason / to find sth embarrassing
anxious to help others resolve difficulties (idiom)
in peril / facing disaster
to make sth difficult / to create obstacles
reproof / blame
dysphagia (medicine)
variant of 磨難|磨难
to run into misfortune
to seek refuge from calamities
to take refuge / to seek refuge from disaster
to be on the horns of a dilemma (idiom)
retort with challenging questions / debate
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
to tackle a thorny problem and overcome its challenges
return what you borrowed on time, you may borrow again next time (idiom)
(idiom) it is easy to go from frugality to extravagance; the reverse is not so easy
to be daunted by challenges
to find sth increasingly difficult
every beginning is difficult (idiom) / getting started is always the hardest part
no room to advance or to retreat (idiom); without any way out of a dilemma / trapped / in an impossible situation
to be faced with problems


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