Question

困 こま.る 困難(こんなん): difficulty; distress貧困(ひんこん): poverty; lack困る(こまる): to be troubled; to be worried; to be bothered; to be embarrassed; to be stumped 6 囗: box or enclosure radical (no. 31); box木: tree; wood 囗 3 (none) quandary You are pent in the garden of eden with one tree, but outside is the whole world to explore! What a quandary -- should you stay in paradise with the tree of knowledge or should you go out into the world?

Accepted Answer

コン quandary, become distressed, annoyed 3 843 7 31 くに・くにがまえ 象形 Pictographic I´m supposed to make an enclosure for my tree, but if I use its wood for the enclosure, there won´t be anything left to be pent-in. What a quandary!

Kanji	困
Onyomi	コン
Kunyomi	こま.る
English	quandary, become distressed, annoyed
Examples	困難(こんなん): difficulty; distress 貧困(ひんこん): poverty; lack 困る(こまる): to be troubled; to be worried; to be bothered; to be embarrassed; to be stumped
JLPT Level	3
Jouyou Grade	6
Frequency	843
Components	囗: box or enclosure radical (no. 31); box 木: tree; wood
Number of Strokes	7
Kanji Radical	囗
Radical Number	31
Radical Strokes	3
Radical Reading	くに・くにがまえ
Traditional Form	(none)
Classification	象形 Pictographic
Keyword	quandary
Koohii Story 1	I´m supposed to make an enclosure for my tree, but if I use its wood for the enclosure, there won´t be anything left to be pent-in. What a quandary!
Koohii Story 2	You are pent in the garden of eden with one tree, but outside is the whole world to explore! What a quandary -- should you stay in paradise with the tree of knowledge or should you go out into the world?

Box Enclosure Wood Quandary Tree 困 コン こま.る

Box Enclosure Wood Quandary Tree 困コンこま.る