刁難

Chinese

		artful; wicked	disaster; distress; to scold disaster; distress; to scold; difficult (to...); problem; difficulty; difficult; not good
trad. (刁難)		刁	難
simp. (刁难)		刁	难

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): diāonàn, diāonán

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄧㄠ ㄋㄢˋ, ㄉㄧㄠ ㄋㄢˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): diu¹ naan⁴
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): tiâu-nàn
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): tiau-lân / thiau-lân / thiau-lān

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Mainland)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: diāonàn
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄧㄠ ㄋㄢˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: diaonàn
    • Wade–Giles: tiao¹-nan⁴
    • Yale: dyāu-nàn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: diaunann
    • Palladius: дяонань (djaonanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ti̯ɑʊ̯⁵⁵ nän⁵¹/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, Taiwan)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: diāonán
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄧㄠ ㄋㄢˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: diaonán
    • Wade–Giles: tiao¹-nan²
    • Yale: dyāu-nán
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: diaunan
    • Palladius: дяонань (djaonanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ti̯ɑʊ̯⁵⁵ nän³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: diu¹ naan⁴
    • Yale: dīu nàahn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: diu¹ naan⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: diu¹ nan⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tiːu̯⁵⁵ naːn²¹/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: tiâu-nàn
    • Hakka Romanization System: diau´ nanˇ
    • Hagfa Pinyim: diau¹ nan²
    • Sinological IPA: /ti̯au̯²⁴ nan¹¹/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, variant in Taiwan)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tiau-lân
    • Tâi-lô: tiau-lân
    • Phofsit Daibuun: diaulaan
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /tiau⁴⁴⁻²² lan¹³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /tiau⁴⁴⁻³³ lan²³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /tiau⁴⁴⁻³³ lan²⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /tiau³³ lan²⁴/
    • IPA (Xiamen): /tiau⁴⁴⁻²² lan²⁴/
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: thiau-lân
    • Tâi-lô: thiau-lân
    • Phofsit Daibuun: tiaulaan
    • IPA (Taipei): /tʰiau⁴⁴⁻³³ lan²⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /tʰiau⁴⁴⁻³³ lan²³/
  • (Hokkien: variant in Taiwan)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: thiau-lān
    • Tâi-lô: thiau-lān
    • Phofsit Daibuun: tiaulan
    • IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /tʰiau⁴⁴⁻³³ lan³³/

Verb

刁難

1. to deliberately make things difficult for; to be hard on someone

Synonyms

• (Hokkien) 刁靠, 刁古董, 喬靠／乔靠, 喬苦／乔苦

Derived terms

• 故意刁難／故意刁难
• 有意刁難／有意刁难
• 百般刁難／百般刁难 (bǎibān diāonàn)