艰 (艱) jiān
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jiān
adjective
difficult; hard
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (CC-CEDICT '艱'; Guoyu '艱' adj 1; Kroll 2015 '艱' 1, p. 169; Mathews 1931 '艱', p. 114; Unihan '艱'; XHZD '艰', p. 327) -
jiān
adjective
distressing
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (Guoyu '艱' n; Kroll 2015 '艱' 3, p. 169; Mathews 1931 '艱', p. 114; Unihan '艱') -
jiān
adjective
dangerous
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (Guoyu '艱' adj 2; Kroll 2015 '艱' 2, p. 169)
Contained in
- 举步维艰(舉步維艱) to make progress only with great difficulty
- 艰苦朴素(艱苦樸素) leading a plain, hardworking life
- 艰难险阻(艱難險阻) untold dangers and difficulties
- 丁艰(丁艱) to be in mourning after the death of a parent
- 艰巨(艱巨) very difficult
- 丁内艰(丁內艱) to suffer the loss of one's mother
- 艰难创业(艱難創業) suffer many trials
- 艰烦(艱煩) troublesome
- 艰深晦涩(艱深晦澀) abstruse and unfathomable
- 艰苦(艱苦) difficult; arduous
- 艰贞(艱貞) to maintain loyalty despite difficulties
- 艰危(艱危) dangerous
- 艰钜(艱鉅) difficult; arduous
- 艰难(艱難) difficult
- 艰险(艱險) dangerous; perilous
- 不避艰险(不避艱險) shrink or flinch from no difficulty or danger; make light of difficulties and dangers
- 艰巨性(艱巨性) arduousness; formidability; difficulty
- 丁外艰(丁外艱) to suffer the loss of one's father
- 艰食(艱食) food that is hard-earned
- 人艰不拆(人艱不拆) life is hard enough as it is; don't burst my bubble
- 艰辛(艱辛) distressing
- 艰困(艱困) difficult
- 艰苦奋斗(艱苦奮鬥) difficult struggle, arduous struggle
- 稼穑艰难(稼穡艱難) the toils of farm work
- 艰阻(艱阻) difficult obstruction
- 艰深(艱深) abstruse
- 艰穷(艱窮) extremely poor
- 步履维艰(步履維艱) to have difficulty walking; to walk with difficulty
- 外艰(外艱) mourning for a father ; foreign aggression
- 丁艰罚(丁艱罰) suffer a difficult punishment
Word is mentioned most frequently in
Truncated for common words
- 卷六十三 列傳第五十一: 周惠達 馮景 蘇綽 Volume 63 Biographies 51: Zhou Huida, Feng Jing, Su Chao History of the Northern Dynasties 北史 — count: 8
- 卷四十八 志第二十九: 食貨三 錢幣 Volume 48 Treatises 29: Finance and Economics 3 - Money History of Jin 金史 — count: 7
- 卷23 列傳第15 蘇綽 Volume 23 Biographies 15: Su Chuo Book of Zhou 周書 — count: 7
- 卷二百五十八 列傳第一百四十六 許譽卿 華允誠 魏呈潤 毛羽健 吳執御 章正宸 黃紹杰 傅朝佑 姜埰 熊開元 詹爾選 湯開遠 成勇 陳龍正 Volume 258 Biographies 146: Xu Yuqing, Hua Yuncheng, Wei Chengrun, Mao Yujian, Wu Zhiyu, Zhang Zhengchen, Huang Shaojie, Fu Chaoyou, Jiang 埰, Xiong Kaiyuan, Zhan Erxuan, Tang Kaiyuan, Cheng Yong, Chen Longzheng History of Ming 明史 — count: 7
- 周書 大誥 Zhou Shu - Great Announcement Book of Documents 尚書 — count: 6
- 卷三十二 列傳第二 后妃下 Volume 32 Biographies 2: Empresses and Consorts Part Two Book of Jin 晉書 — count: 5
- 卷十六 Scroll 16 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 5
- 卷一百三十九 列傳第八十九: 陸贄 Volume 139 Biographies 89: Lu Zhi Old Book of Tang 舊唐書 — count: 5
- 卷72 列傳第37 孝義 Volume 72 Biographies 37: Filial Piety Book of Sui 隋書 — count: 5
- 卷二十五 Scroll 25 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 5
Collocations
- 艰虞 (艱虞) 事極艱虞 — Book of Jin 晉書, 卷六 帝紀第六 中宗元帝 肅宗明帝 Volume 6 Annals 6: Emperor Yuan; Emperor Ming — count: 7
- 时艰 (時艱) 豈非時艱政紊 — Book of Jin 晉書, 卷六十 列傳第三十 解系 孫旂 孟觀 牽秀 繆播 皇甫重 張輔 李含 張方 閻鼎 索靖 賈疋 Volume 60 Biographies 30: Xie Xi; Sun Qi; Meng Guan; Qian Xiu; Miao Bo; Zhang Fu; Li Han; Zhang Fang; Yan Ding; Suo Jing; Jia Pi — count: 7
- 大艰 (大艱) 有大艱于西土 — Book of Documents 尚書, 周書 大誥 Zhou Shu - Great Announcement — count: 6
- 多艰 (多艱) 路紆軫而多艱 — Book of Later Han 後漢書, 卷二十八下 馮衍傳 Volume 28b: Biography of Feng Yan — count: 5
- 方艰 (方艱) 又傷時方艱 — Book of Later Han 後漢書, 卷四十上 班彪列傳 Volume 40a: Biography of Ban Biao 1 — count: 4
- 艰厄 (艱厄) 而赒萬民之艱厄 — Rites of Zhou 周禮, 地官司徒 第二 2. Office of Earth and Minster of Education and Social Welfare — count: 4
- 艰远 (艱遠) 道路艰远 — Book of Later Han 後漢書, 卷七十九上 儒林列傳 Volume 79a: Biographies of Confucian Scholars 1 — count: 4
- 后艰 (後艱) 無有後艱 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 大雅‧生民之什‧鳧鷖 Greater odes of the kingdom - Decade Of Sheng Min - Fu Yi — count: 3
- 运艰 (運艱) 道險運艱 — Records of the Three Kingdoms 三國志, 卷四十四 蜀書十四 蔣琬費禕姜維傳 Volume 44: Book of Shu 14 - Biographies of Jiang Wan, Fei Yi, and Jiang Wei — count: 3
- 幼时艰 (幼時艱) 自古雖主幼時艱 — Book of Later Han 後漢書, 卷十上 皇后紀 Volume 10a: Annals of Empresses 1 — count: 3