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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
hard / solid
HSK 7-9
tough / unyielding / hard-line
HSK 7-9
coin / CL:
HSK 7-9
hard disk
HSK 7-9
to have perfect mastery of sth / to be up to the mark
HSK 7-9
stiff / harsh
HSK 7-9
robust / healthy
HSK 7-9
hard water
hardness
stiff; rigid
cirrhosis
(Tw) hard disk / hard drive
hardening of the arteries / arteriosclerosis
man of steel / unyielding, tough guy
just / simply / stubbornly / really
to brace oneself to do sth / to put a bold face on it / to summon up courage / to force oneself to
stiff / rigid / inflexible / forcibly
hard-line / hardcore
firmly set on doing sth / to insist on doing / determined in one's course of action
to harden / (medicine) sclerosis / (fig.) to become inflexible in one's opinions; to ossify
firm / unyielding / strong-willed
resolute individual / a hard nut to crack / tough mission / difficult task
to make oneself do sth in spite of adversity, pain etc
stearic acid / stearate
(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 use force
lit. eats soft food, but refuses hard food (idiom) / amenable to coaxing but not coercion
atherosclerosis
hard sleeper (a type of sleeper train ticket class with a harder bunk)
sturdy / robust
use both carrot and stick / use gentle methods and force / an iron hand in a velvet glove
to coax and pester (idiom) / to wheedle / to cajole
to proceed tenaciously in spite of obstacles
hard disk / hard drive
bony fishes / Osteichthyes (taxonomic class including most fish)
rigid / inflexible / hard (drug)
to endure with all one's will / to hold out / rigid / stiff
very hard
reluctant to admit a mistake
hardwood
crust; hard shell
strongly-worded
to meet force with force / painstaking
collar
anhydrite CaSO4
stiff / rigid / obstinate
tough battle; difficult task; big challenge
hard seat (on trains)
to yield to force
unmoved by force or persuasion
to learn by rote / to mechanically memorize
hardline faction / hawks
hard-hearted; unfeeling; callous
jadeite
to drag sb along against his will / to draw a forced analogy
hard seat (on trains or boats)
generic term for hard writing instruments such as quill pens, fountain pens, ball pens and pencils, as opposed to writing brushes
hard drive / hard disk
crust (of a solidified liquid etc)
susceptible to force but not persuasion
variant of 硬邦邦
frozen solid
multiple sclerosis
hard power (i.e. military and economic power)
to fire (pottery)
hard candy
(computing) solid-state drive (SSD)
(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
to starch / to stiffen cloth with starch
(bird species of China) white-headed duck (Oxyura leucocephala)
atherosclerosis / hardening of the arteries
tough position
hardware platform
injury / trauma / (fig.) glaring error / flaw / shortcoming
deadlift
cardboard; stiff paper
(dialect) meaty dish
software and hardware
to get tough / to use force
to freeze solid / frozen stiff
unyielding attitude
coin-operated / to insert a coin
to hard-boil (eggs)
coin blank
(esp. of an actor) strong / capable
strong / sturdy / awesome
(Tw) (coll.) to defend an untenable position with ridiculous arguments (from Taiwanese, Tai-lo pr. [ngē-áu]) / Taiwan pr. [ying4ao1]
to shove
hardcore / hard core
staunchly honest
nut
to force feed
hard target
(computing) to hard code; hard-coded
calcium stearate
hardcore (Tw)
to pressure / to press / to force / to compel / to push / to coerce / to urge / to impel / to bully into / to be compelled

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