Kanji1 / 18
難 kanji
difficult, impossible, trouble, accident, defect
- JLPT level
- N3 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 18
- School grade
- Grade 6 (elementary school)
On readings
ナン
Kun readings
かたい-がたいむずかしいむづかしいむつかしい-にくい
Variant forms
難Words with 難
LevelWord & meaningActions
- N3困難Populardifficulty; hardship; trouble; distress; infeasibility; inability (to carry out)
- N2災難Popularcalamity; misfortune; disaster
- N2盗難Populartheft; robbery
- N1難Populardifficulty; trouble; hardship; shortage; accident; disaster; danger; fault; defect; flaw; criticism; charge; blame
- N1遭難Popular(meeting with) disaster; (having an) accident; mishap; shipwreck; distress
- N1非難Popularcriticism; blame; censure; attack; reproach
- N1避難Populartaking refuge; finding shelter; evacuation; escape; seeking safe haven
- N1無難Popularsafe (e.g. choice); secure; innocuous; inoffensive; acceptable; passable; satisfactory; adequate; faultless; without flaw
- —海難Popularaccident at sea; sea disaster; shipwreck
- —苦難Popularsuffering; distress; hardship; trial
- —至難Popularmost difficult; next to impossible
- —受難Popularsufferings; ordeals; agony; Passion (of Christ); crucifixion
- —殉難Popularmartyrdom
- —多難Popularfull of troubles, difficulties
- —難易Popular(relative) difficulty
- —難解Populardifficult to understand; unintelligible; abstruse
- —難関Popularbarrier; obstacle; difficulty; hurdle; deadlock
- —難局Populardifficult situation
- —難航Populardifficult voyage; stormy passage; hard flight; rough going; running into trouble; proceeding with difficulty; rough passage
- —難色Populardisapproval; reluctance; unwillingness