🇯🇵 How to say

“difficult” in Japanese

難しいむずかしい
Illustration of "difficult" in a Japanese cultural setting
A person sits at a desk late at night, surrounded by stacks of papers and a computer screen filled with complex graphs. …

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You can use 難しい for anything that is hard to do, understand, or solve, from a tough job to a difficult question. It's a very common and useful word for learners.

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