Hard in Chinese (Mandarin): 硬 (yìng)
硬
yìng
hard
- Simplified
- 硬
- Traditional
- 硬
- Pinyin
- yìng
- Typed as
- ying
Use it in a sentence
石头很硬。
石頭很硬。
The rock is very hard.
The characters in 硬
硬
Hard. 石 (stone) is on the left.
12 strokes
Fourth tone. A coin is 硬币 (yìngbì), "hard money", and a shell is hard: 硬硬的.
More examples with 硬
这块饼干很硬。
這塊餅乾很硬。
Zhè kuài bǐnggān hěn yìng.
This cookie is hard.
乌龟的壳很硬。
烏龜的殼很硬。
Wūguī de ké hěn yìng.
The turtle's shell is hard.
How to write 硬 in Chinese
Each box adds one stroke, in red. Write them in this order.
硬 12 strokes
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