难

Related characters

 * ( of  难 )

Glyph origin
Unorthodox variant (elimination of left component to ) found in the Ming dynasty orthographic dictionary 《俗書刊誤》.

Originally part of the 324 simplified characters introduced by the ( government) in 1935 but was later retracted in 1936.

Eventually adopted as an official simplified character by the People's Republic of China in the 1956.