# 艰难 (jiānnán)

In Mandarin Chinese, 艰难 (jiānnán) means “difficult; arduous”. It is part of the HSK 5 vocabulary list in the official HSK 3.0 standard.

- Meaning: difficult; arduous
- Pinyin: jiānnán (jian1 nan2)
- Traditional: 艱難
- HSK 3.0 · Level 5
- HSK 2.0 · Level 6

## Examples

- 他们终于做出了一个艰难的决定。
  Tāmen zhōngyú zuòchūle yí gè jiānnán de juédìng.
  They finally made a difficult decision.

## Characters

- 艰 (jiān): difficult; hard
- [难](https://hanziro.com/word/nan-difficult/) (nán): difficult

https://hanziro.com/word/jian-nan-difficult/

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