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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
hardware
HSK 5
hardness
(aviation) hard landing / (economics) hard landing
hard disk
HSK 7-9
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)
hardcore / hard core
resolute individual / a hard nut to crack / tough mission / difficult task
to make oneself do sth in spite of adversity, pain etc
just / simply / stubbornly / really
(computing) to hard code; hard-coded
injury / trauma / (fig.) glaring error / flaw / shortcoming
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)
hard candy
staunchly honest
hard-line / hardcore
jadeite
hardwood
(Tw) hard disk / hard drive
firm / unyielding / strong-willed
sports coupé (car)
stiff / rigid / inflexible / forcibly
(Tw) (computer) hardware
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
cardboard; stiff paper
(esp. of an actor) strong / capable
anhydrite CaSO4
hard drive / hard disk
very hard
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
to meet force with force / painstaking
hard water (cf. 軟水|软水, soft water)
stearic acid / stearate
collar
coin blank
hardcore (Tw)
to pressure / to press / to force / to compel / to push / to coerce / to urge / to impel / to bully into / to be compelled
calcium stearate
(Tw) (coll.) to defend an untenable position with ridiculous arguments (from Taiwanese, Tai-lo pr. [ngē-áu]) / Taiwan pr. [ying4ao1]
to shove
crust (of a solidified liquid etc)
hardware platform
to force feed
crust; hard shell
to proceed tenaciously in spite of obstacles
deadlift
to brace oneself to do sth / to put a bold face on it / to summon up courage / to force oneself to
hard disk / hard drive
sturdy / robust
hard seat (on trains)
variant of 硬邦邦
to have a hard landing (economy)


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