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charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *難* | 難* | *難
difficult (to...) / problem / difficulty / difficult / not good
HSK 1
ugly / unsightly
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
to feel sad / to feel unwell / (of life) to be difficult
HSK 2
don't tell me ... / could it be that...?
HSK 3
degree of difficulty
HSK 3
hard to avoid / difficult to escape from / will inevitably
HSK 4
hard to (predict, imagine etc)
HSK 5
seldom / rare / hard to come by
HSK 5
unforgettable
HSK 6
(it's) no wonder (that...) / (it's) not surprising (that)
HSK 7-9
(idiom) hard to believe; incredible
HSK 7-9
difficulty / crisis
HSK 7-9
hard to take / embarrassed
HSK 7-9
hard to tell (i.e. hard to judge or hard to predict) / cannot bring oneself to say it
HSK 7-9
difficulty
HSK 7-9
rarely seen
HSK 7-9
trouble; difficulty; problem
HSK 7-9
embarrassed
HSK 7-9
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *難* | 難* | *難
disaster / distress / to scold
unpalatable
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)
(usu. of people) difficult / demanding / troublesome / unreasonable / hard to deal with
Is it possible that ... ?
hard to say / can't guarantee / difficult to protect / difficult to preserve
hard to deal with / hard to get along with
unpleasant smell / stink
loath to part (idiom); emotionally close and unwilling to separate
(of pain or hardship) hard to bear
rare and precious / valuable / remarkable
difficult birth / (fig.) difficult to achieve
hard to get to / difficult to travel (i.e. the road is bad)
elusive / hard to pin down / enigmatic
hard to fathom
a hidden trouble hard to mention (idiom) / sth too embarrassing to mention / an embarrassing illness
refugee
cannot escape censure (idiom) / has to bear the blame
refugee camp
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
extremely difficult / even more difficult
loath to part (idiom); emotionally close and unwilling to separate
hard to untie, hard to separate (idiom); inextricably involved / locked in battle
to baffle; to stump
to become caught up in an irresolvable situation (idiom)
It is hard to escape the dragnet of the law / the long arm of the law
hard to endure (hot weather, itchiness etc)
hard to solve / hard to dispel / hard to understand / hard to undo
difficulty / degree of difficulty or ease
hard to pass
extremely difficult / even more difficult
character that is difficult to recognize or write
(coll.) hard to please; high-maintenance
harder than climbing to heaven (idiom)
to be too embarrassed to mention sth (idiom) / to find it hard to speak about sth
unpleasant to drink
Classic on Medical Problems, c. 1st century AD / abbr. for 黃帝八十一難經|黄帝八十一难经
hard to endure / unbearable
hard to deal with / hard to handle
unsusceptible to change / deeply entrenched
to baffle / to confound / to stump
not to pose a problem for sb / cannot stump sb
hard to accomplish / difficult to achieve
hard to understand / incomprehensible
cannot control oneself (idiom) / to be beside oneself
hard to play (of music for stringed instrument)
difficult to understand
loath to part (idiom); emotionally close and unwilling to separate
trying / difficult
(of people) difficult to approach / inaccessible
hard to remember


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