Meta:

  1. 艱 is the 1645th most frequent character.
  2. has 1 dictionary entry.
  3. appears as a character in 8 words.
  4. appears as a component in 0 characters.

Decomposition:

Once :
=> No glyph available,
Radical :
=> 廿 (two hands/twenty), (mouth), (line), (human), (two), (stopping)
Graphical :
=> , , , , , , , , , ,

Pinyin & Meaning:

  1. jian1 - difficult/hard/hardship

Pronunciation Clues:

  1. Pronunciation clue for 艱 (jian1): The component 廿 is pronounced as 'nian4'. It has the same pinyin final.

Example Words:

High Frequency

艰巨 (艱巨)
艰辛 (艱辛)
艰难 (艱難)

Medium Frequency

艰苦 (艱苦)

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Meta:

  1. 巨 is the 911th most frequent character.
  2. has 1 dictionary entry.
  3. appears as a character in 33 words.
  4. appears as a component in 11 characters.

Decomposition:

Once :
=> , No glyph available
Radical :
=> (box), No glyph available
Graphical :
=> , ,

Pinyin & Meaning:

  1. ju4 - very large/huge/tremendous/gigantic

Pronunciation Clues:

  1. There are no phonetic clues for this character.

Example Words:

High Frequency

巨蟹 
巨蟹座 

Medium Frequency

 
巨人 
巨型 
巨大 
巨星 
巨头 (巨頭)
艰巨 (艱巨)

Appears In:

also appears in:
Decomposition Levels:
Level 1: Only divided once. So only two components.
Level 2: Radical Decomposition. The character gets decomposed into its lowest radical components. For the complete list visit the Radical wikipedia page.
Level 3: Graphical Decomposition. Shows all the strokes & lowest level of components that make up the character.
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