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Kanji Information Sheet for 難 ( PDF version )
English: difficult impossible trouble accident defect | On-Yomi: ナン | Kun-Yomi: かた.い -がた.い むずか.しい むづか.しい むつか.しい -にく.い な なに |
Bushu (Radical) Info: 隹 (ふるとり) – old bird
Henshall Mnemonic: bird in trouble in waterless Han China
Levels: JLPT N3 | JLPT 2 (old) | Grade 6
Frequency: #330 of the 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
Frequency: #330 of the 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
Common Words and/or Phrases Using this Kanji:
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JLPT N5 Words
JLPT N4 Words
JLPT N3 Words
- 有り難う [ありがとう]
(conj,exp,int) (uk) Thank you [K] [D] [Jisho] - 困難 [こんなん]
(adj-na,n) difficulty; distress [K] [D] [Jisho]
JLPT N2 Words
- 盗難 [とうなん]
(n) theft; robbery [K] [D] [Jisho] - 災難 [さいなん]
(n) calamity; misfortune [K] [D] [Jisho] - 有難い [ありがたい]
(adj) grateful; thankful; welcome; appreciated; evoking gratitude [K] [D] [Jisho]
JLPT N1 Words
- 非難 [ひなん]
(n,vs) blame; attack; criticism [K] [D] [Jisho] - 遭難 [そうなん]
(n) disaster; shipwreck; accident [K] [D] [Jisho] - 難 [なん]
(n,n-suf) difficulty; hardships; defect [K] [D] [Jisho] - 難い [かたい]
(adj,suf) difficult; hard [K] [D] [Jisho] - 無難 [ぶなん]
(adj-na,n) safety; security [K] [D] [Jisho] - 避難 [ひなん]
(n,vs) taking refuge; finding shelter [K] [D] [Jisho] - 有難う [ありがとう]
(io) (conj,exp,int) (uk) Thank you [K] [D] [Jisho]
Other Popular Words Not Classified by JLPT
- 苦難 [くなん]
(n) trial [K] [D] [Jisho] - 気難しい [きむずかしい]
(adj) hard to please; moody; crusty; fastidious [K] [D] [Jisho] - 受難 [じゅなん]
(n) suffering; agony; passion [K] [D] [Jisho] - 財政難 [ざいせいなん]
(n) economic difficulties [K] [D] [Jisho] - 有り難い [ありがたい]
(adj) grateful; thankful; welcome; appreciated; evoking gratitude [K] [D] [Jisho] - 殉難 [じゅんなん]
(n) martyrdom [K] [D] [Jisho] - 海難 [かいなん]
(n) shipwreck [K] [D] [Jisho] - 多難 [たなん]
(adj-na,n) full of troubles, difficulties [K] [D] [Jisho] - 至難 [しなん]
(adj-na,adj-no,n) most difficult; next to impossible [K] [D] [Jisho] - 難なく [なんなく]
(adv) easily [K] [D] [Jisho] - 難易 [なんい]
(n) difficulty; relative difficulty [K] [D] [Jisho] - 難解 [なんかい]
(adj-na,n) difficult [K] [D] [Jisho] - 難関 [なんかん]
(n) barrier [K] [D] [Jisho] - 難局 [なんきょく]
(n) difficult situation [K] [D] [Jisho] - 難航 [なんこう]
(n) stormy passage [K] [D] [Jisho] - 避難民 [ひなんみん]
(n) refugees; evacuees [K] [D] [Jisho] - 難色 [なんしょく]
(n) disapproval [K] [D] [Jisho] - 難題 [なんだい]
(n) difficult theme [K] [D] [Jisho] - 難聴 [なんちょう]
(n) deafness [K] [D] [Jisho] - 難点 [なんてん]
(n) fault; weakness [K] [D] [Jisho] - 難病 [なんびょう]
(n) incurable disease [K] [D] [Jisho] - 難民 [なんみん]
(n) refugees [K] [D] [Jisho] - 難問 [なんもん]
(n) perplexity; difficult question; difficult problem [K] [D] [Jisho] - どうも有難う [どうもありがとう]
(exp) Thank you [K] [D] [Jisho]
Acknowledgments
The sofware used to generate this kanji information uses the EDICT and KANJIDIC files. These files are the property of the Electronic Dictionary Research and Development Group at Monash University and are used in conformance with the Group's license.NOTE: I converted the sources just mentioned years ago and have never really updated so there may be some missing or incorrect information that has been addressed in the original sources but not here.
The first Stroke Order image used on this page is courtesy of Ulrich Apel's excellent open source KanjiVG project. The second image is from the folks at the excellent Jisho Japanese-English dictionary site and it too is based on KanjiVG.
Classifying the kanji and popular vocabulary by the new JLPT levels was done by consulting Jonathan Waller‘s JLPT Resources page, renshuu, Wictionary, and Nihongo Ichiban.
The Henshall Mnemonics are the copyright of Tuttle Publishing and are the result of the hard work by Professor Henshall. See the list I used here.
If you are curious about the lexicography shown in the word definitions, visit the WWWJDIC abbreviations and codes guide and the JMdict/Edict Lexicographical details page.