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难, but we will also tell you about its etymology, its characteristics and you will know how to say
难 in singular and plural. Everything you need to know about the word
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Translingual
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Han character
难 (Kangxi radical 172, 隹+2, 10 strokes, cangjie input 水人土 (EOG), four-corner 70415, composition ⿰又隹)
Derived characters
- 傩, 𭉼, 𫱞, 摊, 滩, 𦟗, 𣗙, 𪹠, 𬥬, 𬝴, 瘫, 𫺷, 𬊾
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 (elimination of left component to 又 (yòu)) found in the Ming dynasty orthographic dictionary 《俗書刊誤》.
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
References
Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A04467-046#33
Tày
Adjective
难 (nàn, nạn)
- Nôm form of nàn (“hard, late”).
- 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] (in Vietnamese), Hanoi: Nhà xuất bản Khoa học Xã hội
