難

Alternative forms

 * In, Japanese , Korean and Vietnamese Nôm, the component U26c29-ue0102.svg for this character is written with  on top. Note that the bottom portion is written  overlapped by  and not  on top of.
 * In Japanese, the component U26c29.svg is written with 艹 on top and has one stroke less. Due to , both traditional Chinese and Japanese forms are encoded under the same code point. The appearance of this character will differ according to the font used.
 * In, the component U26c29-ue0102.svg is simplified to instead, giving the character.
 * Two exist for this character.   corresponds to the  form of this character while   corresponds to the alternative Korean form which is similar to Japanese shinjitai.

Glyph origin
– a type of bird. Phonetically borrowed for other senses.

Etymology
From.

Cognate with 🇨🇬,, , , 🇨🇬,.

Definitions

 * 1) difficult; hard; troublesome
 * 2) bad; unpleasant
 * 3) to feel difficult; to find difficult
 * 4) to make things difficult for; to put someone in a difficult position
 * 5) difficulty; something which is difficult; issue
 * 6) 79th tetragram of the Taixuanjing; "difficulties" (𝍔)
 * 1) to feel difficult; to find difficult
 * 2) to make things difficult for; to put someone in a difficult position
 * 3) difficulty; something which is difficult; issue
 * 4) 79th tetragram of the Taixuanjing; "difficulties" (𝍔)
 * 1) to make things difficult for; to put someone in a difficult position
 * 2) difficulty; something which is difficult; issue
 * 3) 79th tetragram of the Taixuanjing; "difficulties" (𝍔)
 * 1) 79th tetragram of the Taixuanjing; "difficulties" (𝍔)

Definitions

 * 1) disaster; calamity; catastrophe
 * 2) revolt; attack
 * 3) enmity; foe
 * 4) to blame; to scold; to reproach
 * 5) to keep out; to ward off; to refuse
 * 6) to argue; to debate
 * 1) to blame; to scold; to reproach
 * 2) to keep out; to ward off; to refuse
 * 3) to argue; to debate
 * 1) to keep out; to ward off; to refuse
 * 2) to argue; to debate

Kanji

 * 1) difficult

Readings
From :

From ; compare 🇨🇬:

From native roots:

Compounds

 * : difficult situation, difficult circumstances
 * : difficult situation, difficult circumstances

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) difficulty