难

难

See also: 難

难 U+96BE, 难 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-96BE ← 隽 [U+96BD] CJK Unified Ideographs 隿 → [U+96BF]

Translingual

Stroke order

Japanese	難
Simplified	难
Traditional	難

Han character

难 (Kangxi radical 172, 隹+2, 10 strokes, cangjie input 水人土 (EOG), four-corner 7041₅, composition ⿰又隹)

Derived characters

• 傩, 𭉼, 𫱞, 摊, 滩, 𦟗, 𣗙, 𪹠, 𬥬, 𬝴, 瘫, 𫺷, 𬊾

Related characters

• 難 (Traditional form of 难)

References

• KangXi: not present, would follow page 1364, character 13
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 4090, character 9
• Unihan data for U+96BE

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Chinese

Glyph origin

Unorthodox variant simplified from 難 (elimination of left component to 又) found in the Ming dynasty orthographic dictionary 《俗書刊誤》.

Originally part of the 324 simplified characters introduced by the Republic of China (Kuomintang government) in 1935 but was later retracted in 1936.

Eventually adopted as an official simplified character by the People's Republic of China in the 1956 Chinese Character Simplification Scheme.

Definitions

For pronunciation and definitions of 难 – see 難 (“difficult; hard; troublesome; bad; unpleasant; etc.”). (This character, 难, is the simplified form of 難.)

Notes: Simplified Chinese is mainly used in Mainland China, Malaysia and Singapore. Traditional Chinese is mainly used in Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan.

References

Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A04467-046#33

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Tày

Adjective

难 (nàn, nạn)

1. Nôm form of nàn (“hard, late”).
2. Nôm form of nạn (“accident”).

References

• Lục Văn Pảo; Hoàng Tuấn Nam (2003), Hoàng Triều Ân, editor, Từ điển chữ Nôm Tày [A Dictionary of (chữ) Nôm Tày]‎ (in Vietnamese), Hanoi: Nhà xuất bản Khoa học Xã hội