难 - Mandarin word #5215

难

nán

Traditional: 难

#5215 of 5,000 Core 5000

Translation

difficult, hard

Stroke order

难

。

This question is very hard.

？

Don't tell me you didn't know?

。

This question is not hard.

英yīng语yǔ。

Learning English is not hard.

难 (nán) means difficult. It can stand alone as an adjective and also fronts the rhetorical adverb 难道 (nán dào), used to press a point.

难道

could it be that, don't tell me that (rhetorical)

Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 难.

Track this word in your spaced-repetition queue and be tested on it at the right interval.

This word is part of lesson 105.