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難

JLPT N3 SL6 18 strokes Frequency: #330

Meanings

Difficult, Impossible, Trouble, Accident, Defect

Radicals

隹

Decomposition

⿰堇隹

Etymology

Pictophonetic: bird

Writing Practice

Stroke 0 / 18

Stroke Order

1 horizontal bottom-to-top

2 vertical right-to-left

3 vertical top-to-bottom

4 vertical bottom-to-top

5 corner bottom-to-top

6 horizontal bottom-to-top

7 horizontal bottom-to-top

8 horizontal bottom-to-top

9 diagonal top-to-bottom

10 dot bottom-to-top

11 diagonal right-to-left

12 vertical bottom-right-to-top-left

13 diagonal right-to-left

14 horizontal bottom-right-to-top-left

15 vertical right-to-left

16 horizontal bottom-right-to-top-left

17 horizontal bottom-right-to-top-left

18 horizontal bottom-right-to-top-left

On'yomi (Chinese reading)

ナン nan

Kun'yomi (Japanese reading)

むづか muzuka

むつか mutsuka

かた kata

むずか muzuka

Words Using This Kanji

300 words total

Other (20 words)

兄たり難く弟たり難しけいたりがたくていたりがたし

both people are superb in skill (and thus it is hard to rank them)

難中の難なんちゅうのなん

the hardest thing of all

難中の難なんちゅうのなん

the hardest thing of all

耐え難いたえがたい

unbearable

難治なんじ

intractable (diseases)

後難こうなん

future problems

急難きゅうなん

sudden or unexpected disaster

misfortune

Passion Week

Passion Play

Lent

Passion music

suffering (from illness)

七難しちなん

the Seven Misfortunes

七難八苦しちなんはっく

the Seven Misfortunes and Eight Pains

emergency evacuation

drowning

criticism

beyond help

fire disaster

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