# 難 — Difficult

Frequency rank 417 / 2,608 in published Japanese.

Frequent enough that you will keep running into it once you read past headlines.

More common than 火 (Fire), less common than 演 (Acting).

- On’yomi: なん
- Kun’yomi: むずか、かた
- Radical: 隹 Short-Tailed Bird (Kangxi 172)
- Frequency path: Level IV of XX

Chinese on the left confronts a turkey on the right — trying to explain Chinese cooking to a turkey is extremely difficult.

In words:

- 難しい むずかしい — difficult
- 難 なん — difficulty;hardships;defect
- 難い かたい — difficult;hard

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