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

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Mainland)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: diāonàn
  - Zhuyin: ㄉㄧㄠㄋㄢˋ
  - 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: ㄉㄧㄠㄋㄢˊ
  - 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 Neipu)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: tiâu-nàn
  - Hakka Romanization System: diau^ˊ nan^ˇ
  - 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

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