硬
hard; stiff; solid; (fig.) strong; firm; resolutely; uncompromisingly; laboriously; with great difficulty; good (quality); able (person); (of food) filling; substantial
12 strokes
Dict coverage rank #764 U+786C
How 硬 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
石 (semantic, “stone”) + 更 (phonetic, gèng)
How to remember it
hard · Heisig RSH #632
rocks + 更 even more
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Phonetic series: characters sharing the sound component 更
Siblings built with the same phonetic component 更 (gèng) — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 更 sound component | gèng | more, further; to shift, to alternate; to modify |
| 梗 | gěng | stem, branch; to hinder, to block |
| 鲠 | gěng | fish bones; honest, upright |
| 哽 | gěng | to sob; to choke up |
| 粳 | jīng | non-glutinous rice |
| 埂 | gěng | ditch (for irrigation); hole |
| 绠 | gěng | thick rope; well-rope |
Words containing 硬
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 多发性硬化症 | duō fā xìng yìng huà zhèng | multiple sclerosis |
| 硬生生 | yìng shēng shēng | stiff; rigid; inflexible; forcibly |
| 硬着头皮 | yìng zhe tóu pí | to brace oneself to do sth; to put a bold face on it; to summon up courage; to force onese… |
| 硬实力 | yìng shí lì | hard power (i.e. military and economic power) |
| 硬骨头 | yìng gǔ tou | resolute individual; a hard nut to crack; tough mission; difficult task |
| 硬件平台 | yìng jiàn píng tái | hardware platform |
| 硬水 | yìng shuǐ | hard water (cf. 軟水|软水[ruan3 shui3], soft water) |
| 硬底子 | yìng dǐ zi | (esp. of an actor) strong; capable |
| 心硬 | xīn yìng | hard-hearted; unfeeling; callous |
| 生硬 | shēng yìng | rigid; stiff; lacking naturalness or smoothness; awkward; forced |
| 动脉硬化 | dòng mài yìng huà | hardening of the arteries; arteriosclerosis |
| 强硬立场 | qiáng yìng lì chǎng | tough position |
| 硬性 | yìng xìng | rigid; inflexible; hard (drug) |
| 硬拉 | yìng lā | deadlift |
| 硬骨鱼 | Yìng gǔ yú | bony fishes; Osteichthyes (taxonomic class including most fish) |
| 硬化 | yìng huà | to harden; (medicine) sclerosis; (fig.) to become inflexible in one's opinions; to ossify |
| 硬气 | yìng qì | firm; unyielding; strong-willed |
| 硬体 | yìng tǐ | (Tw) (computer) hardware |
| 嘴硬心软 | zuǐ yìng xīn ruǎn | see 刀子嘴，豆腐心[dao1 zi5 zui3 , dou4 fu5 xin1] |
| 吃硬不吃软 | chī yìng bù chī ruǎn | susceptible to force but not persuasion |