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難

difficult, impossible, trouble, accident, defect

  • 18 strokes
  • Taught in grade 6 (kyōiku kanji)
  • No. 330 of 2,500 in newspapers

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

A dot marks where the okurigana begin.

Stroke order

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Stroke order is from KanjiVG, copyright Ulrich Apel, under CC BY-SA 3.0. A kanji is drawn only where KanjiVG and KANJIDIC2 count the same number of strokes.

Shapes inside it

The shapes EDRDG's KRADFILE lists 難 as containing. It is a lookup aid for finding a kanji by its parts: it says what the character contains, not where it comes from, and a shape need not be a kanji.

Written with 難 11 words

Grouped by JLPT level, easiest first, and oldest first within a level.

JLPT N5 · 1 word

JLPT N3 · 2 words

JLPT N2 · 4 words

JLPT N1 · 4 words

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