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僵硬

jiāng yìng

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word

僵硬 (jiāng yìng) means "stiff; rigid". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 僵硬 means

1. stiff; rigid

The characters in 僵硬

• 僵jiāngrigid; deadlock; stiff (corpse)
• 硬yìnghard; stiff; solid; (fig.) strong; firm; resolutely; uncompromisingly

Example sentences

• 他吓得全身僵硬。
  Tā xià de quánshēn jiāngyìng.
  He was rigid with terror.
• Antonio站了六个小时后，腿变得僵硬。
  A ntonio zhàn le liù gè xiǎoshí hòu, tuǐ biànde jiāngyìng.
  After standing for 6 hours, Antonio's legs became stiff.

Sounds the same

Read jiāng yìng, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 浆硬to starch; to stiffen cloth with starch

Where 僵硬 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · jiǎng–jiāng (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read jiāng yìng correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.