| nán | difficult (to...)/problem/difficulty/difficult/not good |
| nàn | disaster/distress/to scold |
| 难 | difficult (to...) problem difficulty |
| 难上加难 | to be all the more difficult |
| 难上难 | extremely difficult |
| 难不成 | Is it possible that ... ? |
| 难为 | to bother to press sb, usu. to do sth it's a tough job |
| 难为情 | embarrassed |
| 难乎为继 | hard to keep up |
| 难事 | twister; tickler; a piece of work; knot; TOIL; teaser |
| 难于 | had a hard job to; had difficulty with |
| 难于启齿 | have a bone in one's throat |
| 难于接近 | (of people) difficult to approach inaccessible |
| 难于登天 | hard a climbing to heaven (idiom); a tremendous effort |
| 难产 | difficult birth |
| 难人 | difficult; delicate; ticklish; ; person handling a delicate matter; difficulty; |
| 难以 | hard to (predict, imagine etc) |
| 难以为继 | difficult to continue |
| 难以估计 | inestimable 2.beyond compute |
| 难以启齿 | to be too embarrassed to mention sth (idiom) to find it hard to speak about sth |
| 难以实现 | hard to accomplish difficult to achieve |
| 难以应付 | hard to deal with hard to handle |