Illustration: While sorting a childhood room in a Japanese home, an adult kneels beside an open bag of worn-out belongings. They hold a battered stuffed rabbit above the bag but have drawn it back against their chest, fingers gripping its repeatedly repaired ear.

JLPT N1i-adjectiveLevel estimated by Bebop

難かたい

katai

difficult, hard

Formal; as a verb suffix, it is pronounced がたい. Note written by AI.

Example sentences

  1. これは始末しまつの難かたい問題もんだいだ。

    This is a difficult problem to solve.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. それは想像そうぞうに難かたくない。

    It’s pretty easy to imagine.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. 対向車たいこうしゃと正面衝突しょうめんしょうとつしていれば重大じゅうだいな事故じこを起おこしたことは想像そうぞうに難かたくない。

    It is easy to imagine that, if these two trains collided head-on, a serious accident would have been caused.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

Kanji in 難

  • 難difficult; impossibleOnナンKunかたい・むずかしい・むづかしい

A word like this on every new tab

The Bebop Chrome extension shows one illustrated Japanese word each time you open a new tab in Chrome, with its reading, meaning, kanji and three example sentences. Choose any mix of levels from N5 to beyond N1. It’s free, with no account.

The Bebop new tab showing 音楽, music, over an illustration of a family playing music at home, with three example sentences
Add to Chrome Free on the Chrome Web Store
For Chrome on a computer. See it on the Chrome Web Store