See also: and 𝍔
U+96E3, 難
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-96E3

[U+96E2]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+96E4]
U+FA68, 難
CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-FA68

[U+FA67]
CJK Compatibility Ideographs
[U+FA69]
U+FAC7, 難
CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-FAC7

[U+FAC6]
CJK Compatibility Ideographs
[U+FAC8]

Translingual

Japanese
Simplified
Traditional

Alternative forms

Note that in traditional Chinese, the component for this character is written with 廿 on top while in Japanese shinjitai, the component is written with on top and has one stroke less. In simplified Chinese, the component is simplified to instead.

Han character

(radical 172, +11 in Chinese, 隹+10 in Japanese, 19 strokes in Chinese, 18 strokes in Japanese, cangjie input 廿人人土 (TOOG), four-corner 40514, composition𦰩(GHTKV or U+FA68) or ⿰⿱+(J or U+FAC7))

References


Chinese

trad.
simp.
alt. forms

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*naːl
*naːl, *neːl, *njeːl
*n̥ʰaːn, *n̥ʰaːns
*n̥ʰaːn, *naːns, *hnaːnʔ, *hnaːns
*n̥ʰaːn
*n̥ʰaːn, *naːnʔ, *naːns
*n̥ʰaːn
*n̥ʰaːns
*n̥ʰaːn, *naːns
*hnaːnʔ, *hnaːns
*hnaːnʔ, *hnaːns, *njanʔ
*hnaːns
*rnaːnʔ, *njanʔ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *n̥ʰaːn, *naːns) : phonetic 𦰩 + semantic .

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *na-n/t (ill, pain, difficult, evil spirit).

Cognate with Tibetan མནར (mnar, to suffer; suffering), (na, to be sick, ill), ནན་ཏེ (nan te, sick, ill), ནད (nad, disease, suffering), Burmese နာ (na, to suffer pain, to be ill), နတ် (nat, nat (spirit), evil spirit).

Pronunciation 1



  • Dialectal data
Variety Location 難 (易)
Mandarin Beijing /nan³⁵/
Harbin /nan²⁴/
Tianjin /nan⁴⁵/
Jinan /nã⁴²/
Qingdao /nã⁴²/
Zhengzhou /nan⁴²/
Xi'an /nã²⁴/
Xining /nã²⁴/
Yinchuan /nan⁵³/
Lanzhou /lɛ̃n⁵³/
Ürümqi /nan⁵¹/
Wuhan /nan²¹³/
Chengdu /nan³¹/
Guiyang /nan²¹/
Kunming /nã̠³¹/
Nanjing /laŋ²⁴/
Hefei /læ̃⁵⁵/
Jin Taiyuan /næ̃¹¹/
Pingyao /nɑŋ¹³/
Hohhot /næ̃³¹/
Wu Shanghai /ne²³/
Suzhou /ne̞¹³/
Hangzhou /nẽ̞²¹³/
Wenzhou /na³¹/
Hui Shexian /lɛ⁴⁴/
Tunxi /lɔ⁴⁴/
Xiang Changsha /lan¹³/
Xiangtan /nan¹²/
Gan Nanchang /lan⁴⁵/
Hakka Meixian /nan¹¹/
Taoyuan /nɑn¹¹/
Cantonese Guangzhou /nan²¹/
Nanning /nan²¹/
Hong Kong /nan²¹/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /lan³⁵/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /naŋ⁵³/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /nuiŋ³³/
Shantou (Min Nan) /laŋ⁵⁵/
Haikou (Min Nan) /naŋ³¹/

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/2
Initial () (8)
Final () (61)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () I
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/nɑn/
Pan
Wuyun
/nɑn/
Shao
Rongfen
/nɑn/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/nan/
Li
Rong
/nɑn/
Wang
Li
/nɑn/
Bernard
Karlgren
/nɑn/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
nán
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
nán
Middle
Chinese
‹ nan ›
Old
Chinese
/*nˤar/
English difficult

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/2
No. 4897
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*n̥ʰaːn/
Notes 駿

Definitions

  1. difficult; hard; troublesome
    為人父母 / 为人父母   Wéirén fùmǔ hěn nán.   it is difficult being a parent.
    工作非常 / 工作非常   Zhè xiàng gōngzuò fēicháng nán.   This job is very hard.
  2. bad; unpleasant
    /    nánkàn   ugly
    /    nántīng   unpleasant to the ear
  3. to feel difficult
  4. to make things difficult for; to put someone in a difficult position
  5. difficulty; something which is difficult; issue
  6. 79th tetragram of the Taixuanjing; "difficulties"
  7. Alternative form of (“to dread; to fear”).
  8. Alternative form of (tān, “sacrificial rites for getting rid of bogeys”).

Compounds

Pronunciation 2



  • Dialectal data
Variety Location 難 (遭)
Mandarin Beijing /nan⁵¹/
Harbin /nan⁵³/
Tianjin /nan⁵³/
Jinan /nã²¹/
Qingdao /nã⁴²/
Zhengzhou /nan³¹²/
Xi'an /nã⁴⁴/
Xining /nã²¹³/
Yinchuan /nan¹³/
Lanzhou /lɛ̃n¹³/
Ürümqi /nan²¹³/
Wuhan /nan³⁵/
Chengdu /nan¹³/
Guiyang /nan²¹³/
Kunming /nã̠²¹²/
Nanjing /laŋ⁴⁴/
Hefei /læ̃⁵³/
Jin Taiyuan /næ̃⁴⁵/
Pingyao /nɑŋ³⁵/
Hohhot /næ̃⁵⁵/
Wu Shanghai /ne²³/
Suzhou /ne̞³¹/
Hangzhou /nẽ̞¹³/
Wenzhou /na²²/
Hui Shexian /lɛ²²/
Tunxi /lɔ¹¹/
Xiang Changsha /lan⁵⁵/
Xiangtan /nan⁵⁵/
Gan Nanchang /lan²¹/
Hakka Meixian /nan⁵³/
Taoyuan /nɑn⁵⁵/
Cantonese Guangzhou /nan²²/
Nanning /nan²²/
Hong Kong /nan²²/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /lan²²/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /nɑŋ²⁴²/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /nuiŋ⁴⁴/
Shantou (Min Nan) /laŋ³¹/
Haikou (Min Nan) /naŋ³³/

Rime
Character
Reading # 2/2
Initial () (8)
Final () (61)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () I
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/nɑnH/
Pan
Wuyun
/nɑnH/
Shao
Rongfen
/nɑnH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/nanH/
Li
Rong
/nɑnH/
Wang
Li
/nɑnH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/nɑnH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
nàn
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
nàn
Middle
Chinese
‹ nanH ›
Old
Chinese
/*nˤar-s/
English difficulty

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 2/2
No. 4900
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*naːns/

Definitions

  1. disaster; calamity; catastrophe
    /    zāinàn   disaster, catastrophe
    /    wēinàn   calamity
    /    jiénàn   calamity
  2. revolt; attack
  3. enmity; foe
  4. to blame; to scold; to reproach
    /    zhìnàn   to blame
    /    fēinàn   to blame
  5. to keep out; to ward off; to refuse
  6. to argue; to debate

Compounds


Japanese

Shinjitai

Kyūjitai

Kanji

(grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji, shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai form )

  1. difficult

Readings

Compounds

Etymology

Kanji in this term
なん
Grade: 6
on’yomi

From Middle Chinese (MC nɑn).

Pronunciation

Noun

(hiragana なん, rōmaji nan)

  1. difficulty

References

  1. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN

Korean

Hanja

(nan, na) (hangeul , , revised nan, na, McCuneReischauer nan, na, Yale nan, na)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(nan, nạn, nản, nần, nàn)

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