ナン, かた.い, -がた.い, むずか.しい, むづか.しい, むつか.しい, -にく.い, なに
difficult, impossible, trouble, accident, defect

This kanji has 18 strokes: 8 in the "old bird" radical (ふるとり) and 10 other strokes.

Sample compounds (37) :


  1. なん
    difficulty, hardships, defect

  2. がたい
    (suff) hard to ...
  3. しさ
    むずかしさ
    (degree of) difficulty
  4. がある
    なんがある
    to be a problem

  5. ばんなん
    many obstacles, innumerable difficulties

  6. なんみん
    refugees

  7. へいなん
    distress of war

  8. きにくい
    difficult to come

  9. なんぎ
    affliction, hardship, difficulty

  10. けんなん
    the calamity of being killed by the sword

  11. べんなん
    denunciation, criticism

  12. こんなん
    (an) difficulty, distress

  13. たなん
    full of troubles, difficulties

  14. なんきょく
    difficult situation

  15. えがたい
    hard to get

  16. かんなん
    affliction

  17. なんしょ
    rough spot

  18. きゅうなん
    rescue, salvage

  19. なんい
    difficulty, relative difficulty

  20. じゅんなん
    martyrdom
  21. しい
    きむづかしい
    hard to please, moody, crusty, fastidious

  22. かいなん
    shipwreck

  23. かなん
    fire calamity

  24. なんなく
    easily

  25. なんぶつ
    hard problem, person hard to please, hard nut to crack

  26. なんざん
    difficult delivery (birth)

  27. なんちょう
    deafness

  28. ありがとう
    (io) (id) Thank you

  29. ありがたい
    grateful, thankful
  30. どうも
    どうもありがとう
    Thank you

  31. なんこう
    stormy passage

  32. なんせん
    shipwreck

  33. くなん
    trial

  34. なんかい
    (an) difficult

  35. なんどく
    difficult to read (e.g. obscure kanji)

  36. ひなん
    (vs) blame, criticism

  37. たべにくい
    difficult to eat
Kanji Character : 難
Kuten Encoding : 3881
SJIS Encoding : 4671
Unicode Encoding : 96e3
Old Nelson Index : 5038
Radical Number : 172
Frequency Ranking : 368
Gakken Index : 442
Grade Level : 6
Halpern Index : 1838
Heisig Index : 1580
Henshall Index : 949
New Nelson Index : 6515
O'Neil Index : 2760
Stroke Count : 18
Spahn & Hadamitzky Kanji Dictionary Index : 8c10.2
Spahn & Hadamitzky Radical Strokes : 8
Spahn & Hadamitzky Other Strokes : 10
Spahn & Hadamitzky Character ID : c
Spahn & Hadamitzky kanji Number : 2
Spahn & Hadamitzky Kanji & Kana Index : 557
SKIP Code : 1-10-8
De Roo Code : 1975
Four Corner Code : 4051.4
Korean reading : na
Pinyin reading : nan4
Morohashi Index String : 42128P
Morohashi Volume and Page String : 11.1042
Morohashi Index Number : 42128
Morohashi Page : 1042
Morohashi Volume : 11
Morohashi entry is Prime : true
Dictionary Codes
  1. R1975
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