難說

nán shuō

B1 Level 5 ★ Core word

難說 (nán shuō) is a Chinese word meaning “hard to tell (i.e. hard to judge or hard to predict)”. It sits at TOCFL Level 5 (CEFR B1) on Taiwan's official TBCL vocabulary standard, where it is marked a core word.

Definition

  1. hard to tell (i.e. hard to judge or hard to predict)
  2. cannot bring oneself to say it

Stroke order

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Example

明天會不會下雨,現在還很難說。

It's hard to say whether it'll rain tomorrow.

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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).