难

See also: 難なん

难 U+96BE, 难 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-96BE ← 隽 [U+96BD] CJK Unified Ideographs 隿 → [U+96BF]

Translingual

Stroke order

Japanese	難なん
Simplified	难
Traditional	難なん

Han character

难 (Kangxi radical 172, 隹ふるとり+2, 10 strokes, cangjie input 水みず人じん土ど (EOG), four-corner 7041₅, composition ⿰又また隹ふるとり)

Derived characters

• 傩, 𭉼, 𫱞, 摊, 滩, 𦟗, 𣗙, 𪹠, 𬥬, 𬝴, 瘫, 𫺷, 𬊾

Related characters

• 難なん (Traditional form of 难)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: not present, would follow page 1364, character 13
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 4090, character 9
• Unihan data for U+96BE

Chinese

Glyph origin

Unorthodox variant simplified from 難なん (elimination of left component to 又また (yòu)) found in the Ming dynasty orthographic dictionary 《俗書ぞくしょ刊かん誤あやま》.

Originally part of the 324 simplified characters introduced by the Republic of China (Kuomintang government) in 1935 but was later retracted in 1936.

Eventually adopted as an official simplified character by the People's Republic of China in the 1956 Chinese Character Simplification Scheme.

Definitions

For pronunciation and definitions of 难 – see 難なん (“difficult; hard; troublesome; bad; unpleasant; etc.”). (This character is the simplified form of 難なん).

Notes: Simplified Chinese is mainly used in Mainland China, Malaysia, and Singapore. Traditional Chinese is mainly used in Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan.

References

Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育きょういく部ぶ異體いたい字じ字典じてん), A04467-046#33

Tày

Adjective

难 (nàn, nạn)

1. Nôm form of nàn (“hard, late”).
2. Nôm form of nạn (“accident”).

References

• Lục Văn Pảo, Hoàng Tuấn Nam (2003) Hoàng Triều Ân, editor, Từ điển chữ Nôm Tày [A Dictionary of (chữ) Nôm Tày]‎^[1] (in Vietnamese), Hanoi: Nhà xuất bản Khoa học Xã hội