difficult (to...) / problem / difficulty / difficult / not good

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a video game which is almost impossible to beat.

= + : Just inside the anthill's kitchen, Napoleon and a sparrow are trying to beat an insanely difficult video game. After playing and failing all day long Napoleon finally loses his temper and crashes the game wearing two boxing gloves.
disaster / distress / to scold

难 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 (㇏).
short-tailed bird

= + : A sparrow. Julian Giant Squid often visits the sparrows living in front of the Eiffel Tower, and plays his flute for them.

Characters with 难 as component

beach / shoal / rapids / CL:片[pian4] / classifier for liquids: pool, puddle

= + : Tecumseh (t) has been trying to beat a difficult computer game (难) sitting on the beach (滩) in front of the anthill (an1) all day. Frustrated he finally empties a bottle of water (氵) over the console and throws it into the ocean.
to spread out / vendor's stand

= + : Tecumseh (t) set up his vendor's stand (摊) in front of the anthill (an1). He is displaying his video games (难) by spreading them out (摊) dangling from toy claws (扌).
paralyzed

= + : In front of the anthill (an1) Tecumseh (t) is trying to beat an impossible game (难). He gets so frustrated that he first develops a colorful rash (疒) and ends up completely paralyzed (瘫).
to exorcise demons

Words with 难

to feel sad / to feel unwell / (of life) to be difficult
difficulty / crisis
difficult problem
hard to tell (i.e. hard to judge or hard to predict) / cannot bring oneself to say it
a hidden trouble hard to mention (idiom) / sth too embarrassing to mention / an embarrassing illness
loath to part (idiom); emotionally close and unwilling to separate
reproof / blame
to bother / to press sb, usu. to do sth / it's a tough job / sorry to bother you (polite, used to thank sb for a favor)
lit. hard to differentiate between elder and younger brother (idiom) / fig. one is just as bad as the other
brothers in hardship (idiom) / fellow sufferers / in the same boat
hard to untie, hard to separate (idiom); inextricably involved / locked in battle
to show signs of reluctance or embarrassment
hard to solve / hard to dispel / hard to understand / hard to undo
hard to remember
hard to get to / difficult to travel (i.e. the road is bad)
cannot escape censure (idiom) / has to bear the blame
It is hard to escape the dragnet of the law / the long arm of the law
war of 1402 between successors of the first Ming Emperor

Sentences with 难

dà
wáng
yào
jiàn
còu
shǒu
hé
yòng
de
bi̅ng
qì
ma
 
 
dào
yě
bù
nán