Chinese Character 艰 Meanings and components.

Form

艰

Meaning

艰 meaning^[3] in English

Difficult.

Hard.

Hardship.

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Main Components

By analyzing its shape, the hanzi^[2] character 艰 can be seen as a composition of 2 main shapes where their meanings are (once) again (又) , and blunt (艮)

Its radical^[1] is: 艮 (gen3) which means: Blunt, Tough, Chewy, .艮gen3blunt

In cangjie it is written with EAV

How to write 艰

To write艰jian1difficult you should write a combination of 又you4(once) again , 艮gen3blunt arranged in a 吅 shape:

又 + 艮 = 艰

艰 Stroke Order

The order of the strokes to write 艰 should be followed in this specific way.

Components Tree

The composition tree, or the characters that form each component of 艰, looks as follow:

艰

Pinyin:jian1 Shape:吅

Meaning^[3]: Difficult . Hard . Hardship

又

Pinyin:you4

Meaning^[3]: (Once) Again . Also . Both... And... . And Yet . (Used For Emphasis) Anyway

艮

Pinyin:gen3

Meaning^[3]: Blunt . Tough . Chewy

Notes

[1] A character's radical: 部bùsection 首shǒuheader Radical
[2] Hanzi stands for: 汉hànChinese 字zìCharacter
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