Keyword
difficult
Info
FrequencyTop 300-400
Type
Kyōiku (6th grade) 
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Shinjitai ?
KankenLevel 5
Heisig1703
Old form
Readings
なん
(31%)
がた
(6%)
にく
(3%)
がと
(1%)
Composed of
blades of grass
mouth
husband
old bird
Mnemonic

A husband with a big mouth is hiding in the grass from an old bird that he pissed off. You never want to piss off an old (hence very experienced) killer bird. It's really difficult to run away from such a killing machine, so the only thing you can do is to hide in the bushes and hope it doesn't find you.

Used in kanji (2 in total)
rough seas
???
Used in vocabulary (391 in total)
difficult; hard; impossible; unfeasible; fussy; particular; gloomy
difficulty; hardship; trouble; infeasibility; inability (to carry out)
criticism; blame; censure; attack; reproach
Examples (200 in total)
It's more difficult than you think.
Do you understand the difficulty of my job?
That isn't so difficult, is it?