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  *硬* | 硬* | *硬
hard; stiff; solid / (fig.) strong; firm / resolutely; uncompromisingly / laboriously; with great difficulty / good (quality); able (person) / (of food) filling; substantial
HSK 5
tough / unyielding / hard-line
HSK 7-9
hardware
HSK 5
(computing) hard disk drive (HDD)
hardness
(aviation) hard landing / (economics) hard landing
to stiffen
(bird species of China) white-headed duck (Oxyura leucocephala)
hard disk
HSK 7-9
to coax and pester (idiom) / to wheedle / to cajole
robust / healthy
HSK 7-9
to harden / (medicine) sclerosis / (fig.) to become inflexible in one's opinions; to ossify
coin / CL:
HSK 7-9
hard seat (on trains or boats)
hard power (i.e. military and economic power)
(dialect) meaty dish
rigid / inflexible / hard (drug)
portable hard drive; external hard drive
hardcore / hard core
stiff; rigid
(computing) solid-state drive (SSD)
hard / solid
HSK 7-9
unyielding attitude
resolute individual / a hard nut to crack / tough mission / difficult task
to make oneself do sth in spite of adversity, pain etc
susceptible to force but not persuasion
just / simply / stubbornly / really
software and hardware
to learn by rote / to mechanically memorize
to have perfect mastery of sth / to be up to the mark
HSK 7-9
unmoved by force or persuasion
(computing) to hard code; hard-coded
injury / trauma / (fig.) glaring error / flaw / shortcoming
cirrhosis
hard sleeper (a type of sleeper train ticket class with a harder bunk)
to endure with all one's will / to hold out / rigid / stiff
nut
bony fishes / Osteichthyes (taxonomic class including most fish)
tough position
hard candy
lit. eats soft food, but refuses hard food (idiom) / amenable to coaxing but not coercion
to freeze solid / frozen stiff
use both carrot and stick / use gentle methods and force / an iron hand in a velvet glove
staunchly honest
hard-line / hardcore
atherosclerosis / hardening of the arteries
jadeite
frozen solid
stiff / harsh
HSK 7-9
hardwood
(Tw) hard disk / hard drive
multiple sclerosis
firm / unyielding / strong-willed
sports coupé (car)
to drag sb along against his will / to draw a forced analogy
stiff / rigid / inflexible / forcibly
(Tw) (computer) hardware
(of a bird) to fledge / (fig.) (of a person) to outgrow the need to be submissive to one's parents, mentor etc; to break away from the people who have supported one up to now
to get tough / to use force
atherosclerosis
coin-operated / to insert a coin
(neologism c. 2024) to stubbornly endure hardships that need not be endured; to go out of one's way to make things difficult for oneself
hard target
tough battle; difficult task; big challenge
to use force
strong / sturdy / awesome
firmly set on doing sth / to insist on doing / determined in one's course of action
hard / erect / to be in erection
cardboard; stiff paper
(esp. of an actor) strong / capable
anhydrite CaSO4
hard drive / hard disk
very hard
to force oneself upon sb (idiom) / to rape
man of steel / unyielding, tough guy
generic term for hard writing instruments such as quill pens, fountain pens, ball pens and pencils, as opposed to writing brushes
atherosclerosis / hardening of the arteries
organza (fabric)
to meet force with force / painstaking
to hard-boil (eggs)
hard water (cf. 軟水|软水, soft water)
stearic acid / stearate
collar
to starch / to stiffen cloth with starch
coin blank
hardcore (Tw)
strongly-worded
hardline faction / hawks
reluctant to admit a mistake
to pressure / to press / to force / to compel / to push / to coerce / to urge / to impel / to bully into / to be compelled
calcium stearate
very hard or stiff
hard-hearted; unfeeling; callous
(Tw) (coll.) to defend an untenable position with ridiculous arguments (from Taiwanese, Tai-lo pr. [ngē-áu]) / Taiwan pr. [ying4ao1]
stiff / rigid / obstinate
to shove
crust (of a solidified liquid etc)
hardware platform
to force feed

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