Pinyin: yìng

hard; stiff

Example sentence

这个面包太硬了。

Zhège miànbāo tài yìng le.

This bread is too hard.

What 硬 means

(yìng) is a Chinese word meaning “hard; stiff”. It belongs to the Describing Words topic and appears at HSK 4, so it is one of the words worth learning early when you study Chinese.

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HSK 4

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