It is difficult to understand his theory.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
难懂
difficult to understand
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
difficult to understand
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 难懂 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 难懂 appears in 5 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.
They say Wenzhounese is hard to understand, right?
No published English translation for this sentence.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 难懂.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 难懂.
Directly before
- 很难懂2
- 最难懂1
- 十分难懂1
- 晦涩难懂1
Directly after
- 难懂的2
ABOUT THIS ENTRY
Where this entry comes from
The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.
Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
COMMON QUESTIONS
About 难懂
What does 难懂 mean in Chinese?
难懂 (nándǒng) means difficult to understand.
How do you pronounce 难懂?
难懂 is pronounced nándǒng.
Is 难懂 an HSK word?
难懂 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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