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难受

nán shòu 2–4

to feel unwell; to suffer pain; to be difficult to bear

HSK level
HSK 2
HSK 2.0 level 4 · HSK 3.0 level 2
Characters
2
难 · 受
Syllables
2
nán shòu
Frequency
Less common
corpus count 3,699

Part of speech: a

Character by character

  • 难nán10 strokesHSK 1 traditional 難difficult, arduous, hard; unable
  • 受shòu8 strokesHSK 2receive, accept, get; bear, stand

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Words with the same characters

These words share at least one character with 难受. Reading them together is how the character starts to stick — the same characters in a different context.

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