difficult / hard / hardship

= + : Joan of Arc (ji) dropped her boxing glove (又) in front of the anthill (an1). It got stuck to a chewing gum (艮) on the pavement and now she has a hard (艰) time removing it. Joan of Arc's life is really difficult (艰) at the moment.

艰 character breakdown

(once) again / also / both... and... / and yet / (used for emphasis) anyway

= + : And once again (又), Maud Younger (y) is preparing for battle. She's donning her boxing glove in the outhouse's bathroom (ou4), puts on a beak (㇇) and plans go give her opponent the finger (㇏).
blunt / tough / chewy

= + : Mnemonic symbol: chewing gum.

= + : The sun hates it when Guy Fawkes is riding his longboard in the encampment. This time, she found out how to stop him: With chewing gum on the floor.
one of the Eight Trigrams 八卦[ba1 gua4], symbolizing mountain / ☶ / ancient Chinese compass point: 45° (northeast)

Characters with 艰 as component

艰 is not used as a component in another character.

Words with 艰

difficult / hard / challenging
difficult / hard / arduous
hardships / arduous / difficult
arduous / terrible (task) / very difficult / formidable
difficult and dangerous / hardships and perils
to make progress only with great difficulty (idiom)
untold dangers and difficulties (idiom)
to have difficulty walking (idiom) / to walk with difficulty
abstruse and unfathomable (idiom)
(literary) to be in mourning after the death of a parent
shrink or flinch from no difficulty or danger / make light of difficulties and dangers
life is hard enough as it is; don't burst my bubble (Internet slang)
arduousness / formidability / difficulty
abstruse / complicated
leading a plain, hardworking life (idiom)

Sentences with 艰

艰 currently does not appear in any sentence.