牢固 láogù▶ padat

Stroke order

牢固 is written in 15 strokes across 2 characters.

• 牢 — 7 strokes
• 固 — 8 strokes

Senses

1. firm
2. secure

Related words

• 凝固beku
• 固体padat
• 固执keras kepala
• 固有Melekat
• 固然Tentu saja
• 坚固kuat

牢固 is pronounced láogù and means “padat”. You will meet it in HSK 6, a band of the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi — the standard test of Chinese proficiency. Most learners can pick 牢固 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.