不难

不難

bùnán

adjective HSK 7 #39,970

Meanings

Not difficult — easy to do.

Zhè dào tí bùnán, nǐ shìshi kàn.

This problem isn't hard — give it a try.

Bùnán kànchū tā hěn jǐnzhāng.

It's not hard to see that he's nervous.

Xuéhuì zuò zhè dào cài bùnán.

Learning to make this dish isn't difficult.

usage

不难 + verb is a common written pattern meaning 'it's easy to': 不难发现 (not hard to discover), 不难理解 (not hard to understand), 不难看出 (not hard to see).

不难 is slightly more formal than 容易 (róngyì, easy). In essays and news, 不难看出 is very common as a transition phrase meaning 'it is easy to see that...'

不 bù

难 nán