困
Meaning
- to trap
- to surround
- hard-pressed
Example sentence
我还很困。
I'm still sleepy.
The character 困
困 is 木, a tree, boxed inside 囗, a wall: hemmed in. 困难 a difficulty, 困住 to be trapped — and in speech 困 also means sleepy, which is being hemmed in by tiredness.