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困

Distressed
Stroke count: 7

Readings

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Verbs with «困»

困る困惑する

Meanings

  1. distressed
  2. quandaryRtK
  3. become distressed
  4. annoyed
  1. to be troubled
  2. to have difficulty
  3. to be in a fix
  4. to be at a loss
  5. to be stumped

Popular Usage

困る困難

Radicals and components

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Mnemonic (RtK)

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pent in (囗) · tree (木) · wood (木)

From "Remembering the Kanji" by James Heisig · Frame 621

Compound words

私は入り口のない都市に住むと困ると思います。こまる
I think that it would be inconvenient to live in a city with no door.tatoeba
彼は返事に困った。
He was at a loss for an answer.tatoeba
彼は彼女にうるさく質問して困らせた。
He bothered her with questions.tatoeba
彼は入院した瞬間から、いつ家に戻れるか教えてほしいと主治医に尋ね、困らせ続けた。
From the moment he arrived there, he kept on bothering his doctor to tell him when he would be able to go home.tatoeba
彼は長年、腰痛で困っている。
He's been having trouble with back pain for years.tatoeba
これにより、国中が干ばつに襲われ、民百姓が困る。
As a result of the occult act, the regions all over Japan are affected by drought and peasants suffer from it.wiki
ただし二幕目でいきなり坊主では困ると粂三郎の母が文句を入れた。
Actually, Kumesaburo's mother opposed having him appear in a butch haircut from the very beginning of Act Two.wiki
遣唐使の渡海の困難
Difficult Sea Voyage of the Kentoshi (Japanese Delegates to China)wiki
布教は困難をきわめた。
Missionary work proved to be difficult.wiki

Real voices: how native speakers say it

These sentences were read aloud by real people — native Japanese speakers — for the open Mozilla Common Voice project. Listen to how a phrase sounds in real speech: the intonation, the pace, the way words run together. Two speakers mean two different people read it — compare them.

名刺なんかもらっても困っちゃうな。
めいしなんかもらってもこまっちゃうな。I don't know what to do with a business card.
どれだけの人が貧困に苦しんでいるのかわかってなさそう
どれだけのひとがひんこんにくるしんでいるのかわかってなさそうIt seems like they don't understand how many people are suffering from poverty.
困り果ててしまった
こまりはててしまったI ended up completely stumped

Recordings and sentences: Mozilla Common Voice, CC0

Stroke Order

7 strokes

Be troubled. 囗 (enclosure) + 木 (tree) — a tree boxed in with no room to grow.

Practice Writing

Practice Writing 困

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