Chinese Idioms Containing “难”

Cannot undo what's done

Literal: Four horses can't catch

Press on despite awareness of challenges

Literal: Know difficulty yet advance

Utterly impossible to escape

Literal: Add wings difficult fly

Actions cannot be undone

Literal: Spilled water hard to recover

Companions united through shared hardship

Literal: Difficult elder and younger brothers

Unable to stop dangerous course

Literal: Hard to dismount tiger

In a dilemma; caught between difficulties

Literal: Left and right both difficult

Unable to move forward at all

Literal: Inch step difficult to walk

Be inseparable; hate to part

Literal: Hard to part, hard to leave

Hard to leave one's homeland

Literal: Native soil hard to leave

Wise withdrawal

Literal: Know difficulty and retreat

Persevere through challenges

Literal: Face difficulties head-on

Perseverance conquers all

Literal: Nothing in the world is difficult

Solidarity in hardship

Literal: Share difficulties together

Complex situation

Literal: Difficult to express in words

Insufficient individual effort

Literal: A single tree cannot support

Hard to change habits

Literal: Accumulated weight hard to return