Difficulty in Chinese
difficulty · HSK 4
困难
- 困 sleepy
- 难 difficult
Counted with 个: 一个困难
遇到困难不要怕。 Don't be afraid when you run into difficulties.
Other ways to say difficulty
More words with 困 or 难
How do you say difficulty in Chinese?
Difficulty in Chinese is 困难 (kùn nan). You can also say 难度 (nán dù), 艰辛 (jiān xīn), 难点 (nán diǎn).
Which word should I use?
Start with the first one: it is the easiest on the HSK list. The others say it too, often in a more formal way or for a narrower sense; each one’s page has real sentences that show how it is used.
Where do these words come from?
The CC-CEDICT dictionary’s meanings for the official HSK word list. A word is shown for an English word when that is one of its first meanings; the easiest word whose first meaning it is comes first.
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Meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Chinese often has more than one way to say a word.