難

Meaning

難 centers on things being hard to do or deal with: difficulty, trouble, accidents, and defects. The sense of 'impossible' is an extreme degree of difficulty.

• 有難うありがとう
  N4

  thank you; thanks

• 難しいむずかしい
  N5

  difficult; hard; troublesome; complicated; serious (disease, problem, etc.)

• 困難こんなん
  N3

  difficulty; hardship; trouble; distress

• 避難ひなん
  N2

  taking refuge; finding shelter; evacuation; escape; seeking safe haven

• 有難いありがたい
  N2

  grateful; thankful; welcome; appreciated; evoking gratitude

• 非難ひなん
  N2

  criticism; blame; censure; attack; reproach

• 難易なんい
  N1

  (relative) difficulty

• 難なん
  N1

  difficulty; trouble; hardship; shortage

• 難いかたい
  N1

  difficult; hard

• 難民なんみん
  N1

  refugee; displaced person

• 難波なにわ

  Naniwa (former name for Osaka region)

• 無難ぶなん
  N2

  safe (e.g. choice); secure; innocuous; inoffensive

• 盗難とうなん
  N2

  theft; robbery

• 遭難そうなん
  N1

  (meeting with) disaster; (having an) accident; mishap; shipwreck; distress

• 難点なんてん
  N1

  fault; weakness; flaw; defect; drawback; disadvantage

• 難病なんびょう

  serious disease; intractable disease; difficult-to-recover-from illness

• 難聴なんちょう

  hardness of hearing; bradyacusia; deafness; hearing loss

• 難関なんかん
  N1

  barrier; obstacle; difficulty; hurdle; deadlock

• 難解なんかい
  N1

  difficult to understand; unintelligible; abstruse

• 災難さいなん
  N2

  calamity; misfortune; disaster

• 苦難くなん

  suffering; distress; hardship; trial

• 難題なんだい

  difficult problem; challenge

• 難航なんこう
  N1

  difficult voyage; stormy passage; hard flight

• 難問なんもん
  N1

  perplexity; difficult question; difficult problem

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