难 (nán) means Difficult (hard - bad). Below are 24 of the 122 sentences on this site that use it — with pinyin, an English translation and audio. All of them were written by hand; none is machine generated.
Dictionary examples
汉语不 难 ，但是要多练习。
Hànyǔ bù nán, dànshì yào duō liànxí.
Chinese isn't hard, but you have to practise a lot.
Dictionary example · HSK 3 · 难
这道题相当 难 。
Zhè dào tí xiāngdāng nán.
This question is quite difficult.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 相当
这句话很 难 理解。
Zhè jù huà hěn nán lǐjiě.
This sentence is hard to understand.
Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 理解
这张试卷有点 难 。
Zhè zhāng shìjuàn yǒudiǎn nán.
This test paper is a bit hard.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 试卷
这段文字很 难 懂。
Zhè duàn wénzì hěn nán dǒng.
This passage of text is hard to understand.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 文字
请体谅他的 难 处。
Qǐng tǐliàng tā de nánchu.
Please make allowances for his difficulties.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 体谅
别故意为 难 人家。
Bié gùyì wéinán rénjiā.
Don't deliberately make things hard for people.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 为难
这个动作有点儿 难 。
Zhège dòngzuò yǒudiǎnr nán.
This movement is a bit difficult.
Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 动作
他经历过很多困 难 。
Tā jīnglì guo hěn duō kùnnan.
He has been through many difficulties.
Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 经历
难 道他真的不来了？
Nándào tā zhēn de bù lái le?
Can it be that he really is not coming?
Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 难道
这个语法有点儿 难 。
Zhège yǔfǎ yǒudiǎnr nán.
This grammar point is a bit hard.
Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 语法
这种成功很 难 复制。
Zhè zhǒng chénggōng hěn nán fùzhì.
This kind of success is hard to reproduce.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 复制
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From the graded readers
汉字很 难 ，我常常写错。
hànzì hěn nán, wǒ chángcháng xiě cuò.
Chinese characters are hard and I often write them wrong.
Graded reader · HSK 1 · Learning Chinese
去年我考试没考好，很 难 过。
qùnián wǒ kǎoshì méi kǎo hǎo / hào, hěn nán'guò.
Last year I did badly in an exam and felt terrible.
Graded reader · HSK 2 · My Chinese Teacher
最 难 的不是第一天，而是第十天。
zuì nán de / dì búshì dìyī tiān, érshì dìshí tiān.
The hardest day wasn't the first — it was the tenth.
Graded reader · HSK 4 · Keeping Up Running
最 难 的不是搬，而是决定什么东西要扔。
zuì nán de / dì búshì bān, érshì juédìng shénme dōngxī yāo rēng.
The hard part wasn't the carrying — it was deciding what to throw away.
Graded reader · HSK 3 · Moving House
我又着急又 难 过，因为里面有很多重要的照片。
wǒ yòu zhāo / zhaó / zhe / zhù / zhuó jí yòu nán'guò, yīnwèi lǐmiàn yǒu hěnduō zhòngyào de / dì zhàopiàn.
I was anxious and upset, because there were a lot of important photos on it.
Graded reader · HSK 3 · Losing My Phone
最 难 的是第一年，我几乎每个月都在担心钱的问题。
zuì nán de / dì shì dìyī nián, wǒ jīhū měi gè yuè dōu zài dānxīn qián de / dì wèntí.
The first year was the hardest — I worried about money almost every month.
Graded reader · HSK 4 · Changing Jobs
From the travel phrasebook
这个价格很 难 做。
Zhège jiàgé hěn nán zuò.
That price is very difficult for us.
Travel phrasebook · Negotiating and pricing
难 appears in 122 sentences on this site; the 24 shortest and most direct are shown. The rest are on the pages they were written for — the graded readers, the phrasebook and the grammar library.
Words that contain 难
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Questions about 难
How is 难 used in a sentence?
This page shows 122 sentences using 难 (nán, "Difficult (hard - bad)"), each with pinyin, an English translation and audio. Every one of them was written by hand for this site.
Are these sentences machine generated?
No. They come from the site's own dictionary examples, graded readers, travel phrasebook and grammar library — all written by a person. A word with no sentence gets no page here, rather than a page of invented ones.
Why do some sentences show 难 inside a longer word?
Because that is where a single character usually lives. Seeing 难 inside the words it builds is how the character stops being an isolated symbol and starts being something you can read.
Is 难 an HSK word?
Yes — 难 is on the official HSK 3 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 3 page.
Where can I see the full entry for 难?
The dictionary page for 难 has its stroke order, its traditional form, every sense the dictionary lists and a character-by-character breakdown. It is linked at the top of this page.
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