Chinese Character 难 Meanings and components.

Form

难

Meaning

难 meaning^[3] in English

Difficult (To...).

Problem.

Difficulty.

View more meanings of 难 in English

Main Components

By analyzing its shape, the hanzi^[2] character 难 can be seen as a composition of 2 main shapes where their meanings are (once) again (又) , and short-tailed bird (隹)

Its radical^[1] is: 隹 (zhui1) which means: Short-Tailed Bird, .隹zhui1short-tailed bird

In cangjie it is written with EOG

How to write 难

To write难nan2difficult (to...) you should write a combination of 又you4(once) again , 隹zhui1short-tailed bird arranged in a 吅 shape:

又 + 隹 = 难

难 Stroke Order

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

Components Tree

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

难

Pinyin:nan2 Shape:吅

Meaning^[3]: Difficult (To...) . Problem . Difficulty . Difficult . Not Good

又

Pinyin:you4

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

隹

Pinyin:zhui1

Meaning^[3]: Short-Tailed Bird

Notes

[1] A character's radical: 部bùsection 首shǒuheader Radical
[2] Hanzi stands for: 汉hànChinese 字zìCharacter
Wiktionary Page for 难in English or Chinese