艱 — kanji meaning “difficult”
艱
difficult, trying, be distressed, parent's funeral ceremony, mourning, perilous
- Meanings
- difficult, trying, be distressed, parent's funeral ceremony, mourning, perilous
- On'yomi
- カン (kan)、ケン (ken)
- Kun'yomi
- なや.む、かた.い、なや.み
- Strokes
- 17
- Classical radical
- 138
- Chinese reading
- jiān — Chinese character page
Words with 艱
| Word | Reading | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 艱難 | かんなん kannan | hardships; privations; difficulties |
| 艱難辛苦 | かんなんしんく kannanshinku | trial and tribulation; hardships; privations |
| 艱苦 | かんく kanku | hardship; suffering; privation |
| 艱難苦労 | かんなんくろう kannankurou | trials and tribulations; adversities; suffering hardships and troubles |
| 辛苦艱難 | しんくかんなん shinkukannan | trials and tribulations; adversities; suffering hardships and troubles |
| 時艱 | じかん jikan | problems that affect a period of time; hardships peculiar to an age; hard problems of the times |
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