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

disaster / catastrophe
disaster; catastrophe
to feel embarrassed or awkward / to make things difficult (for someone) / to find things difficult (to do or manage)
perils of the sea
to sacrifice oneself in a just cause / a victim of a disaster
victim of an accident / casualty / martyr for one's country
to die in an accident / to die for a just cause
it is easier to change mountains and rivers than to alter one's character (idiom) / you can't change who you are / Can the leopard change his spots?
hard to forget even after one's teeth fall out (idiom); to remember a benefactor as long as one lives / undying gratitude
it is hard to escape the net of justice (idiom)
like a clay Bodhisattva fording a river, can't guarantee his own safety / unable to save oneself, let alone others
rivers and mountains are easy to change, man's character much harder
even an honest and upright official will have difficulty resolving a family dispute (proverb)
water once spilt cannot be retrieved (idiom); irreversible change
lit. even harder than reaching the sky (idiom) / fig. extremely difficult / far from an easy task
(idiom) you can lead a horse to water but you cannot make it drink
to sacrifice one's wealth to save the state (idiom)

Sentences with 难

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