艱 Save Sign in to save words Simplified: 艰 jiān ㄐㄧㄢ difficult hard hardship How 艱 is written 艱 Write 艱 部首 radical 艮 笔画 strokes 17, with 11 after the 部首 结构 structure 左右结构 偏旁 parts 堇+艮 形旁 meaning 艮 声旁 sound 堇 Words with 艱 Starting with 艱 艱難 艱苦 艱鉅 艱苦奮鬥 艱辛 All 6 words starting with 艱 A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0 Make Me a Hanzi, from fonts by Arphic Technology Co., Ltd., Arphic Public License