難 — Chinese character
難
nán
hard, difficult, arduous; unable
- Pinyin
- nán
- Radical
- 172 ⾫ (Short Tailed Bird)
- Strokes
- 19
- Components
- 堇 隹
- Formation
- pictophonetic — bird; meaning component 隹; sound component 堇
- Simplified
- 难
- Japanese
- 難 as a kanji
難 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Tao Te Ching 13 · Analects 22 · Art of War 9 · Mencius 14 · Zhuangzi 42 · Doctrine of the Mean 2
- Tao Te Ching Chapter 2
- Tao Te Ching Chapter 3
- Tao Te Ching Chapter 12
- Tao Te Ching Chapter 63
- Tao Te Ching Chapter 64
- Tao Te Ching Chapter 65
- Tao Te Ching Chapter 73
- Tao Te Ching Chapter 75
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