Chinese symbol for “seldom”
难得
nán dé
Traditional: 難得
seldom; rare; hard to come by
The closest CC-CEDICT match for seldom is 难得 (nán dé), defined as: seldom; rare; hard to come by.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “seldom”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 难得.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 困难 (困難) | kùn nan | difficult; challenging |
| 难道 (難道) | nán dào | don't tell me ...; could it be that...? |
| 难以 (難以) | nán yǐ | hard to (predict, imagine etc) |
| 难过 (難過) | nán guò | to feel sad; to feel unwell |
| 难民 (難民) | nàn mín | refugee |
| 灾难 (災難) | zāi nàn | disaster; catastrophe |
| 觉得 (覺得) | jué de | to think that ...; to feel that ...; to feel (uncomfortable etc) |
| 获得 (獲得) | huò dé | to obtain; to receive; to get |
See also: Japanese symbol for “seldom”.
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.