坚硬 jiānyìng▶ keras; sulit

Stroke order

坚硬 is written in 19 strokes across 2 characters.

• 坚 — 7 strokes
• 硬 — 12 strokes

Senses

1. hard
2. solid

Related words

• 僵硬kaku
• 坚固kuat
• 坚定Teguh; Mantap
• 坚实padat
• 坚韧berpasir; gigih
• 硬keras; sulit

坚硬 is pronounced jiānyìng and means “keras; sulit”. You will meet it in HSK 6, a band of the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi — the standard test of Chinese proficiency. Most learners can pick 坚硬 out of a list long before they can reach for it unprompted, and the gap between those two closes only with repeated recall. LexiTrail schedules the next sighting from how well you did on the last.