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

don't tell me ... / could it be that...?
difficult / challenging / straitened circumstances / difficult situation
hard to (predict, imagine etc)
difficult / hard / challenging
seldom / rare / hard to come by
to be too embarrassed to mention sth (idiom) / to find it hard to speak about sth
to suffer a calamity / to suffer (e.g. under torture) / distress
to baffle / to confound / to stump
to just escape from calamity
if you ride a tiger, it's hard to get off (idiom); fig. impossible to stop halfway
extremely difficult / even more difficult
to tackle a difficult job (idiom) / to do sth reluctantly
extremely difficult / hard and dangerous / challenging
to resolve a difficult situation and leave worries behind (idiom)
The Yellow Emperor's Classic of Eighty-one Difficulties, medical text, c. 1st century AD
national calamity
variant of 磨難|磨难[mo2 nan4]

Sentences with 难

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