It was an uphill struggle.
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艰难
Traditional: 艱難
jiān nán
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jiān nán · gaan1 naan4 (Jyutping)
- difficult; arduous; hard
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Character breakdown
Unihan 17.0.0 · Unicode License V3. Make Me a Hanzi · LGPL 3+. Interactive stroke order is available in the study tools.
Example sentences
This month was kind of difficult.
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