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5

difficult

Composition


Components

Sounds

Pinyin

jian1 jiān

Meaning


Primary

difficult

Alternatives

difficulty, difficulties

Mnemonic


[ji-] Jimmy Neutron is in [1] front of the [-an] pawn shop where he works. He is faced with the 艱 difficult task of somehow moving a priceless 艮 silver 堇 lookout tower that they just bought to inside the pawn shop. He 艱 difficultly places it horizontally on the pawn shop lawn and starts disassembling it, finding that unscrewing all the 艮 silver screws is quite 艱 difficult indeed.

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