艱 — Chinese character
艱
jiān
difficult, hard; hardship
- Pinyin
- jiān
- Radical
- 138 ⾉ (Stopping)
- Strokes
- 17
- Components
- 堇 艮
- Formation
- pictophonetic — tough; meaning component 艮; sound component 堇
- Simplified
- 艰
- Japanese
- 艱 as a kanji
艱 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: I Ching 6
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.