Kanji1 / 12
硬 kanji
stiff, hard
- JLPT level
- N2 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N3 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 12
- School grade
- Secondary school
On readings
コウ
Kun readings
かたい
Words with 硬
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —永久硬水permanent hard water
- —強硬手段tough measure; firm step; strong measure
- —硬性憲法rigid constitution
- —硬骨魚類bony fishes; osteichthyans
- —強硬路線hard line; hard-line; tough line; hawkish line
- —硬石けんhard soap; soda soap
- —硬葉樹林sclerophyll forest; sclerophyllous forest; hardwood forest
- —硬骨魚綱Osteichthyes (class comprising the bony fishes and sometimes their descendants, i.e. tetrapods)
- —脊髄硬膜spinal dura mater
- —硬口蓋音palatal
- —粥状硬化atherosclerosis; atherosclerotic
- —硬質ゴムhard rubber (e.g. ebonite, vulcanite)
- —硬化ゴムvulcanite; ebonite
- —超硬合金cemented carbide
- —時効硬化age hardening; precipitation hardening; particle hardening
- —硬式野球regulation baseball (as opposed to the variety played with a rubber ball)
- —記念硬貨commemorative coin
- —硬質小麦hard wheat
- —除脳硬直decerebrate rigidity
- —硬式テニス(regulation-ball) tennis (as opposed to soft tennis)