kùn nan
difficult
challenging
straitened circumstances
difficult situation
Jiāng nán
south of Changjiang or Yangtze river
south of the lower reaches of Changjiang
often refers to south Jiangsu, south Anhui and north Zhejiang provinces
a province during Qing times
in literature, refers to the sunny south
Gangnam (district in Seoul, South Korea)
yì jué kùn nan
to find sth increasingly difficult