にく
Meanings
Adjective (い)
Suffix
Usually written in kana
1. difficult to ...; hard to ...
after -masu stem of verb
Kanji used
difficult
Pitch accent
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Used in vocabulary (18 in total)
difficult to imagine; quite unlikely to; very doubtful; would not expect
hard to understand; incomprehensible; unintelligible
hard to do
unapproachable; inaccessible; difficult to access
hard to see; obscured
hard to see; obscure; indistinct; illegible
hard to understand; incomprehensible; unintelligible
hard to read; illegible
hard to understand; incomprehensible; unintelligible
difficult to hear; indistinct; hesitating to ask; awkward to ask; unpleasant to hear; painful to listen to
hard-to-do; difficult; tough; awkward; tricky
difficult to approach; inaccessible
awkward (difficult) question
difficult (to obtain, receive permission, access, etc.); tough (to do, etc.)
can't occur easily; difficult to happen
scratch-resistant
Examples (6 in total)
That question is hard to answer.
It's hard to understand the Osaka dialect.
Poetry is a search for the inexplicable.