Chinese symbol for “predicament”
困境
kùn jìng
predicament; plight
The closest CC-CEDICT match for predicament is 困境 (kùn jìng), defined as: predicament; plight.
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “predicament”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 窘况 (窘況) | jiǒng kuàng | predicament |
| 逆境 | nì jìng | adversity; predicament |
| 窘境 | jiǒng jìng | awkward situation; predicament |
| 困局 | kùn jú | dilemma; predicament |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 困境.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 困难 (困難) | kùn nan | difficult; challenging |
| 贫困 (貧困) | pín kùn | impoverished; poverty |
| 困扰 (困擾) | kùn rǎo | to perplex; to disturb |
| 困惑 | kùn huò | bewildered; perplexed |
| 被困 | bèi kùn | to be trapped; to be stranded |
| 环境 (環境) | huán jìng | environment; circumstances |
| 境内 (境內) | jìng nèi | within the borders; internal (to a country, province, city etc) |
| 边境 (邊境) | biān jìng | frontier; border |
See also: Japanese symbol for “predicament”.
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.