# 艱 U+8271 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8271

A Chinese character meaning “difficult, hard; distressing”, read jiān in Mandarin.

| | |
|---|---|
| Character | `艱` |
| Codepoint | U+8271 |
| Name | CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8271 |
| Block | [CJK Unified Ideographs](https://unicodekit.com/block/cjk-unified-ideographs) |
| Script | Han |
| Category | Other Letter (Lo) |
| Unicode version | 1.1 |
| HTML | `艱` `艱` |
| CSS | `\8271` |
| JavaScript | `\u8271` |
| UTF-8 | E8 89 B1 |
| UTF-16 | 8271 |
| Definition | difficult, hard; distressing |
| Mandarin | jiān |
| Cantonese | gaan1 |
| Japanese | KAN KEN NAYAMU KATAI |
| Korean | KAN |

## Related characters

- 艰 [U+8270 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8270](https://unicodekit.com/char/8270)
- 色 [U+8272 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8272](https://unicodekit.com/char/8272)
- 良 [U+826F CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-826F](https://unicodekit.com/char/826F)
- 艳 [U+8273 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8273](https://unicodekit.com/char/8273)
- 艮 [U+826E CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-826E](https://unicodekit.com/char/826E)
- 艴 [U+8274 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8274](https://unicodekit.com/char/8274)
- 艭 [U+826D CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-826D](https://unicodekit.com/char/826D)
- 艵 [U+8275 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8275](https://unicodekit.com/char/8275)
- 艬 [U+826C CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-826C](https://unicodekit.com/char/826C)
- 艶 [U+8276 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8276](https://unicodekit.com/char/8276)
- 艫 [U+826B CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-826B](https://unicodekit.com/char/826B)
- 艷 [U+8277 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8277](https://unicodekit.com/char/8277)

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