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Chinese symbol for “confound”

难倒
nán dǎo
Traditional: 難倒
to baffle; to confound; to stump

The closest CC-CEDICT match for confound is 难倒 (nán dǎo), defined as: to baffle; to confound; to stump.

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Characters and stroke order

难 nán
hard, difficult, arduous; unable
radical 172 ⾫ · 10 strokes
倒 dǎo
to collapse, to fall over; to lie down
radical 9 ⼈ · 10 strokes

Traditional forms

Related words

Other words that share a character with 难倒.

WordPinyinMeaning
困难 (困難)kùn nandifficult; challenging
难道 (難道)nán dàodon't tell me ...; could it be that...?
难以 (難以)nán yǐhard to (predict, imagine etc)
难过 (難過)nán guòto feel sad; to feel unwell
难民 (難民)nàn mínrefugee
灾难 (災難)zāi nàndisaster; catastrophe
打倒dǎ dǎoto overthrow; to knock down
倒闭 (倒閉)dǎo bìto go bankrupt; to close down

Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.