难 · Bo Shaozhi
Nán (2nd tone); also nàn (4th tone) meaning ‘disaster’. The Shuowen Jiezi records something startling: 「難，鳥也。从鳥堇聲」 — ‘難 is a bird; from 鳥 (bird) with 堇 as the phonetic.’ The graph’s original referent was a bird’s name, and the sense ‘diffic $9.00 – Purchase Checkout Added to cart