難

(relative) difficulty

penance; hardship

to criticize; to point out faults; to speak ill of

hard-to-get-into school; elite school; highly-selective school

intractable (diseases); hard to cure

rebellious; insurgent; refractory; obstinate

Ichidan verb - zuru verb (alternative form of -jiru verbs)

to criticize; to point out faults; to speak ill of

Noun or verb acting prenominally

difficult to read (kanji, name, etc.); having difficult-to-read kanji

Abbreviation

highly selective university; university with high entry requirements; elite university

flame retardance; flame resistance; incombustibility

difficult role

abstruseness; abstruse word

to meet with disaster

Buddhism

the hard way; striving for enlightenment through one's own efforts (as opposed to reliance on Amitabha)

refugee status determination; refugee recognition; certification of refugee status

Naniwa Bay (old name for Osaka Bay)

indigestible; digestion-resistant; hard-to-digest

incurable illness

Baseball

ball which is hard to hit or catch

the hardest thing of all

word with difficult-to-read kanji

deaf person; hearing-impaired person

overcoming a difficulty; breaking through a barrier; clearing a hurdle

Buddhism

something difficult to teach

Computing

obfuscation (of source code)