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
- —難題Populardifficult problem; challenge
- —難聴Popularhardness of hearing; bradyacusia; deafness; hearing loss; having poor reception (radio, etc.)
- —難点Popularfault; weakness; flaw; defect; drawback; disadvantage; crux (of a matter); difficult point; point of contention
- —難病Popularserious disease; intractable disease; difficult-to-recover-from illness
- —難民Popularrefugee; displaced person; person inconvenienced by (lack of something, etc.); person unable to satisfactorily (marry, shop, etc.); person who is stuck (in a place or situation)
- —難問Popularperplexity; difficult question; difficult problem
- —財政難Populareconomic difficulties; financial difficulties; fiscal difficulties
- —難なくPopulareasily
- —避難民Popularevacuees; displaced persons; refugees
- —一難one difficulty; one danger
- —火難fire disaster
- —患難affliction
- —危難peril; danger; hazard; distress
- —救難rescue; salvage
- —剣難(calamity of) perishing by the sword; being wounded by the sword
- —女難(romantic) trouble with women; calamities brought upon a man by a woman
- —難儀troublesome (person, task, etc.); difficult; suffering; hardship; trouble; affliction; difficulty
- —難詰reprimand
- —難行penance
- —難産difficult delivery; difficult childbirth; dystocia