diāo nàn

Traditional: 刁難

HSK 7–9

刁难 (diāo nàn) is a Chinese word meaning “to be hard on sb; to deliberately make things difficult; Taiwan pr. [diao1nan2]”.

Meanings

  1. 1to be hard on sb; to deliberately make things difficult
  2. 2Taiwan pr. [diao1nan2]
Part of speech
verb

Characters in 刁难

刁diāo · artful难nán · difficult (to...)

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