Chinese Character 艱 Meanings and components.

Form

艱

Meaning

艱 meaning^[3] in English

Difficult.

Hard.

Hardship.

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Main Components

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

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

In cangjie it is written with TOAV

How to write 艱

To write艱jian1difficult you should write a combination of 堇jin3clay , 艮gen3blunt arranged in a 吅 shape:

堇 + 艮 = 艱

艱 Stroke Order

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

Components Tree

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

艱

Pinyin:jian1 Shape:吅

Meaning^[3]: Difficult . Hard . Hardship

堇

Pinyin:jin3 Shape:一

Meaning^[3]: Clay . Old Variant Of 僅|仅[Jin3] . Violet (Plant)

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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