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HSK
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *強* | 強* | *強
strong / powerful / better / slightly more than / vigorous / violent / best in their category, e.g. see 百強|百强
HSK 3
big and strong; formidable; powerful
HSK 3
strong; intense
HSK 3
strength / intensity / CL: 個|个
HSK 5
to emphasize (a statement) / to stress
HSK 3
to rob (with force) / bandit / robber / CL: 個|个
HSK 6
to strengthen / to intensify
HSK 6
tough / unyielding / hard-line
HSK 7-9
to compel / to force
HSK 5
strong / powerful / (linguistics) emphatic / intensive
HSK 6
strong / sturdy / robust
HSK 6
to try to make one's case using false arguments
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *強* | 強* | *強
surname Qiang
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *強* | 強* | *強
stubborn / unyielding
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *強* | 強* | *強
to force / to compel / to strive / to make an effort
to force; to compel; to coerce / forced; compulsory / Taiwan pr. [qiang3zhi4]
HSK 7-9
strong or weak / intensity / amount of force or pressure
obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)
Johnson & Johnson
strong / powerful / robust
HSK 7-9
to impose / to force upon
HSK 7-9
Johnson (surname) / Johnson & Johnson (company)
to order by force / peremptory
a powerful team (sports)
to keep fit and healthy
powerful enemy
(idiom) however strong you are, there is always someone stronger
to do sth by force / Taiwan pr. [qiang3 xing2]
HSK 7-9
strong breeze (meteorology)
unyielding attitude
tough position
to occupy by force
HSK 7-9
to force; to oblige
power / might
to insist on; to demand; to impose
(politics) strongman / (in the workplace, esp. of a woman) a highly capable person / (old) robber
forced labor (as punishment in criminal case)
to force someone to do something
strong interaction (governing hadrons in nuclear physics)
prime time
to twist words and force logic (idiom) / sophistry / loud rhetoric making up for fallacious argument / shoving false arguments down people's throats
lit. if you have to use force to break a melon off the vine, it won't taste sweet (because it's only when the melon is ripe that it can be removed with just a slight twist) (idiom) / fig. if sth is not meant to be, it's no use trying to force it to happen
promotion (for a product) / advertisement
strong soldiers / make the military powerful (political slogan)
to resist (with great difficulty)
hardline faction / hawks
to press into service / to impress / to commandeer
to strengthen one's body; to keep fit; to build up one's health (through exercise, nutrition etc)
rich and powerful
cardiac stimulant
to use all one's willpower (to do sth) / to hang in there
heart-strengthening shot / fig. a shot in the arm
compelling notion / obsession
powerful
(ironically) mainland China (Taiwan & Hong Kong usage)
powerful country / great power
high current (e.g. electric)
competent / capable
to be better than
(military) to take by storm
surly and unreasoning / bullying / tyrannical
sturdy
to rape
powerful earthquake / abbr. for 強烈地震|强烈地震
rapist
radioactive hot spot
compulsive / obsessive
to argue endlessly / to try to have the last word
there are no poor soldiers under a good general (idiom)
sexual obsession
to oppose strongly / violently opposed to
accent color
lit. strong dragon cannot repress a snake (idiom); fig. a local gangster who is above the law
resilient / tough and strong
rape
to forcibly kiss; to kiss without consent
strong / forceful
to compel / to force
ruffian / bully
to pretend to look happy / to force oneself to smile
key strength / strong suit / specialty
HSK 7-9
strong interaction (in particle physics) / strong force
to force sb to buy or sell / to trade using coercion
loud pedal (on piano) / sustaining pedal
tough / strong / formidable / fearsome
to talk back / to reply defiantly
to try hard to suppress one's grief (idiom)
to drag (sb) along (to a place) / to yank
the strong force (in nuclear physics)
lit. an arrow at the end of its flight (idiom) / fig. spent force
superglue
(bird species of China) brown-flanked bush warbler (Horornis fortipes)
to be better than
violent / to rape
hadron (particle physics)
ankylosing spondylitis / Bechterew’s disease
strong alkali
compulsive hoarding


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