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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
hard / solid
HSK 7-9
to have perfect mastery of sth / to be up to the mark
HSK 7-9
tough / unyielding / hard-line
HSK 7-9
stiff / harsh
HSK 7-9
to meet force with force / painstaking
stiff; rigid
reluctant to admit a mistake
stiff / rigid / obstinate
hard-hearted; unfeeling; callous
to stiffen
(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
hard / erect / to be in erection
to fire (pottery)
to freeze solid / frozen stiff
to starch / to stiffen cloth with starch
frozen solid
lit. eats soft food, but refuses hard food (idiom) / amenable to coaxing but not coercion
to yield to force
strongly-worded
to hard-boil (eggs)
very hard or stiff


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