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难过

nán guò 2–4

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

HSK level
HSK 2
HSK 2.0 level 3 · HSK 3.0 level 2
Characters
2
难 · 过
Syllables
2
nán guò
Frequency
Less common
corpus count 2,714

Part of speech: a

Character by character

  • 难nán10 strokesHSK 1 traditional 難difficult, arduous, hard; unable
  • 过guò7 strokesHSK 1 traditional 過pass, pass through, go across

Each character links to its stroke order page with a tracing and a writing exercise.

Example sentences

  • 我很难过。

    Wǒ hěn nán guò

    I'm sad.

Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR), contributed by their community.

Words with the same characters

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

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