难看

Character by character

• 难nán10 strokesHSK 1 traditional 難difficult, arduous, hard; unable
• 看kàn9 strokesHSK 1look, see; examine, scrutinize

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Words with the same characters

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

• 看kànHSK 1

  to see; to look at; to read; to watch; to visit; to call on; to consider; to regard as; to look after; to treat (a patient or illness); to depend on; to feel (that); (after a verb) to give it a try; to watch out for

• 看到kàn dàoHSK 1

  to see

• 难nánHSK 1

  difficult (to...); problem; difficulty; difficult; not good

• 看来kàn laiHSK 4

  apparently; it seems that

• 看见kàn jiànHSK 1

  to see; to catch sight of

• 困难kùn nanHSK 3

  difficult; challenging; straitened circumstances; difficult situation

• 难道nán dàoHSK 3

  don't tell me ...; could it be that...?

• 难以nán yǐHSK 5

  hard to (predict, imagine etc)

• 好看hǎo kànHSK 1

  good-looking; nice-looking; good (of a movie, book, TV show etc); embarrassed; humiliated

• 看法kàn fǎHSK 2

  way of looking at a thing; view; opinion

• 看上去kàn shang quHSK 3

  it would appear; it seems (that)

• 难过nán guòHSK 2

  to feel sad; to feel unwell; (of life) to be difficult

• 看起来kàn qǐ laiHSK 3

  seemingly; apparently; looks as if; appear to be; gives the impression that; seems on the face of it to be

• 艰难jiān nánHSK 5

  difficult; hard; challenging

• 看出kàn chūHSK 5

  to make out; to see

• 观看guān kànHSK 3

  to watch; to view

• 难受nán shòuHSK 2

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

• 查看chá kànHSK 6

  to look over; to examine; to check up; to ferret out

• 难度nán dùHSK 3

  degree of difficulty

• 灾难zāi nànHSK 5

  disaster; catastrophe

• 看好kàn hǎoHSK 6

  to regard as having good prospects

• 难得nán déHSK 5

  seldom; rare; hard to come by

• 难怪nán guàiHSK 7

  (it's) no wonder (that...); (it's) not surprising (that)

• 看待kàn dàiHSK 5

  to look upon; to regard