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
- —難渋suffering; distress; difficulty; hardship; misery; being bogged down; hurdle
- —難所perilous pass (on a route or journey); rough spot
- —難船shipwreck
- —難読difficult to read (kanji, name, etc.); having difficult-to-read kanji
- —難破shipwreck
- —難物hard problem; person hard to please; hard nut to crack
- —難癖fault
- —百難all obstacles; all sorts of trouble
- —兵難distress of war
- —弁難denunciation; criticism
- —万難many obstacles; innumerable difficulties
- —厄難calamity; evil; misfortune
- —艱難hardships; privations; difficulties
- —難場predicament; difficult situation
- —難治intractable (diseases); hard to cure; rebellious; insurgent; refractory; obstinate
- —後難future problems; consequences
- —急難sudden or unexpected disaster
- —御難misfortune; calamity
- —病難suffering (from illness)
- —七難the Seven Misfortunes; great number of faults or defects