Chinese characters : Query result

Character: 難

Modern (Beijing) reading: nán

Preclassic Old Chinese: nār

Classic Old Chinese: nān

Western Han Chinese: nān

Eastern Han Chinese: nān

Early Postclassic Chinese: nān

Middle Postclassic Chinese: nān

Late Postclassic Chinese: nān

Middle Chinese: nân

English meaning : be difficult

Russian meaning[s]: трудный, тяжелый; трудно, неудобно; вежл. нельзя, не могу; затруднять, беспокоить, обременять; [nàn] 1) бедствие; смута; 2) обвинять, укорять; 3) ставить в затруднительное положение; [nuó] 1) пышный (о листве); 2) см. 儺

Comments: Also read *nār-s, MC nần, Mand. nàn, Viet. nạn 'difficulty; to balk'. For *n- cf. Xiamen lan², Chaozhou laŋ², Fuzhou naŋ², Jianou nuiŋ² (*nār-s: Xiamen lan⁶, Chaozhou laŋ⁶, Fuzhou naŋ⁶, Jianou nuiŋ⁶).

Dialectal data: Dialectal data

Radical: 172

Four-angle index: 885

Karlgren code: 0152 d-g

Vietnamese reading: nan

Jianchuan Bai: na7

Dali Bai: na7

Bijiang Bai: ne7

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