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坚韧

jiān rèn

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

坚韧 (jiān rèn) means "tough and durable; tenacious". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 坚韧 means

1. tough and durable
2. tenacious

The characters in 坚韧

• 坚jiānstrong; solid; firm
• 韧rènannealed; pliable but strong; tough

Example sentences

• 学好一门外语需要坚韧不拔的毅力。
  Xuéhǎo yī mén wàiyǔ xūyào jiānrènbùbá de yìlì.
  Mastering a foreign language involves a lot of patience.
• 猎人们用坚韧的绳网把野生动物捉住了。
  Lièrén men yòng jiānrèn de shéng wǎng bǎ yěshēngdòngwù zhuōzhù le.
  The hunters captured the wild animal with a strong rope net.

Words starting with 坚韧

• 坚韧不拔jiān rèn bù báfirm and indomitable (idiom); tenacious and unyielding

Sounds the same

Read jiān rèn, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 兼任to hold a concurrent post; part-time; (in academia) adjunct

Where 坚韧 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · jiān (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 jiān rèn correctly.
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