U+96E3 "難" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

難

U+96E3 "難" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a traditional Chinese character that carries the primary meaning of "difficult," "hard," or "troublesome," though it can also denote "disaster" or "adversity" depending on context and pronunciation variations in different East Asian languages. In its most common usage across Chinese, Japanese, and Korean, this character appears in words such as 困難 (difficulty) and 難問 (hard question), and it is frequently employed in compound terms related to challenges or obstacles. The character's structure combines the radical 隹 (short-tailed bird) with a phonetic component, reflecting its origin in ancient Chinese writing, and it is notably significant in philosophical and literary texts, including the Dao De Jing, where it contrasts with 易 (easy) to illustrate the concept of relative difficulty.

General Properties

Code Point	U+96E3
Version Added	1.1
Name	CJK Unified Ideograph-#
Block	CJK Unified Ideographs
General Category	Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	難
HTML Hex Encoding	難
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE9 0x9B 0xA3
UTF-16 Encoding	0x96E3
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000096E3
C/C++/Java Escape	\u96e3

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
NFKC Quick Check	Yes
NFKD Quick Check	Yes
Numeric Type	None
Numeric Value	NaN
Line Break	Ideographic
East Asian Width	Wide
Script	Han
Script Extensions	Han
Indic Syllabic Category	Other
ID Start	Yes
XID Start	Yes
ID Continue	Yes
XID Continue	Yes
Alphabetic	Yes
Vertical Orientation	Upright
Grapheme Base	Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break	Other
Word Break	Other
Sentence Break	OLetter
Ideographic	Yes
Unified Ideograph	Yes

Unihan Properties

kBigFive	C3F8
kCCCII	215F50
kCNS1986	1-7945
kCNS1992	1-7945
kCangjie	TOOG
kCantonese	naan4
kCihaiT	1446.301
kCowles	2834 2835
kDaeJaweon	1876.020
kDefinition	difficult, arduous, hard; unable
kEACC	4B5F50
kFanqie	那干奴案
kFenn	108A
kFennIndex	355.04 356.03
kFourCornerCode	4051.4
kGB1	3649
kGradeLevel	2
kGSR	0152d
kHangul	난:0E
kHanYu	64108.050
kHanyuPinlu	nán(795) nan(344) nàn(82)
kHanyuPinyin	64108.050:nán,nàn,nuó
kHKGlyph	4424
kIICore	ATJHKMP
kIRGDaeJaweon	1876.020
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	64108.050
kIRGKangXi	1370.050
kIRG_GSource	G1-4451
kIRG_HSource	HB1-C3F8
kIRG_JSource	J0-4671
kIRG_KPSource	KP0-D4D8
kIRG_KSource	K0-5171
kIRG_TSource	T1-7945
kIRG_VSource	V1-6B4C
kJapanese	ナンダンダナかたいむずかしい
kJoyoKanji	2010
kKoreanEducationHanja	2007
kJapaneseKun	KATAI MUZUKASHII
kJapaneseOn	NAN
kJis0	3881
kKangXi	1370.050
kKarlgren	389
kKorean	NAN NA
kLau	2250 2251
kMandarin	nán
kMatthews	4625
kMeyerWempe	1945 1946
kMojiJoho	MJ027762 MJ030304:FE00 MJ027762:E0102 MJ058984:E0103 MJ030304:E0104 MJ058983:E0108
kMorohashi	42128' 42145:FE00 42128':E0102 42145:E0104
kNelson	5038 5039
kPhonetic	546 942
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+3273+172.8.10
kRSUnicode	172.11
kSBGY	121.29 402.02
kSemanticVariant	U+96BE<kLau,kMatthews
kSimplifiedVariant	"难" U+96BE CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kSMSZD2003Index	759.04
kSMSZD2003Readings	nán粵naan4 nàn粵naan6
kSpecializedSemanticVariant	U+96BE<kFenn
kTaiwanTelegraph	7181
kTang	*nɑn
kTotalStrokes	19
kUnihanCore2020	HJKMPT
kVietnamese	nan
kXerox	242:172
kXHC1983	0817.011:nán 0818.041:nàn