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硬件

yìng jiàn

Old HSK 5 HSK 3.0 level 5 2-character word

硬件 (yìng jiàn) means "hardware". It is an HSK 3.0 level 5 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

What 硬件 means

1. hardware

The characters in 硬件

• 硬yìnghard; stiff; solid; (fig.) strong; firm; resolutely; uncompromisingly
• 件jiànitem; component; classifier for events, things, clothes etc

Example sentences

• 用户应该拥有硬件和软件的使用自由，操作系统应该是开放的，而不是封闭的。
  Yònghù yīnggāi yōngyǒu yìngjiàn hé ruǎnjiàn de shǐyòng zìyóu, cāozuòxìtǒng yīnggāi shì kāifàng de, ér bù shì fēngbì de.
  A user should have freedom with respect to both hardware and software. An operating system should be open, not closed.
• 这艘货运飞船将为太空站工作人员运送超过四吨的补给品、水、备件和实验硬件，其中包括完成太空站电力系统全面升级所需的六块新的锂离子电池。
  The cargo craft will carry more than four tons of supplies, water, spare parts and experiment hardware for the station crew, including six new lithium-ion batteries needed to complete an overall update of the station’s electrical system.

Words starting with 硬件

• 硬件平台yìng jiàn píng táihardware platform

Words containing 硬件

• 软硬件ruǎn yìng jiànsoftware and hardware

Where 硬件 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Media, Frequency & Categories (HSK 5), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 5 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read yìng jiàn correctly.
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