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艱難

jiān nán

B1 Level 5 ★ Core word
Stative verb

艱難 (jiān nán) is a Chinese word meaning “difficult”. It sits at TOCFL Level 5 (CEFR B1) on Taiwan's official TBCL vocabulary standard, where it is marked a core word.

Definition

  1. difficult
  2. hard
  3. challenging

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Example

那段日子過得很艱難。

Those days were very hard.

Related words at this level

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Vocabulary & levels: TBCL / NAER. Parts of speech: TOCFL 8000-word list (SC-TOP). Definitions: CC-CEDICT & CFDICT (CC BY-SA). Stroke data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License).