Cantonese · Jyutping
Mandarin · Pinyin
- yìng
English
- hard, firm, strong
- hard; stiff; solid
- (adjective) 1. tough (guy); (adverb)
- obstinate
- (fig.) strong; firm
- Unavoidably; 2. forcibly
- resolutely; uncompromisingly
- laboriously; with great difficulty
- good (quality); able (person)
- (of food) filling; substantial
- to describe an overwhelming chance of something happening; very likely
- hard; tough; solid; firm; stiff
粵語
- 指一件事好大機會會發生
- 實淨，唔易變形、屈曲，要較大力撳落下先會變形
As a component in
Variants
Words containing 硬
- 硬件ngaang6 gin2
hardware
- 死硬sei2 ngaang6
stiff
- 強硬koeng4 ngaang6
tough
- 硬幣ngaang6 bai6
coin
- 硬盤ngaang6 pun2
hard disk
- 堅硬gin1 ngaang6
hard
- 硬水ngaang6 seoi2
hard water (cf. 軟水|软水[ruan3 shui3], soft water)
- 手硬sau2 ngaang6
noun; stiffness of the hand (not flexible)
- 硬係ngaang2 hai6
(adverb) always; stubbornly; obstinately; invariably; such is (the case); deliberately; to describe a situation where there is no alternative but to follow a set defined way to do something
- 口硬hau4 ngaang6
stubborn
- 硬化ngaang6 faa3
to harden
- 命硬meng6 ngaang6
to be able to survive through the roughs and the toughs; someone who is hard to kill [colloquial]
- 硬板ngaang6 baan2
(noun) a solid panel; a wood panel
- 硬漢ngaang6 hon3
man of steel
- 硬體ngaang6 tai2
(Tw) (computer) hardware
- 硬食ngaang6 sik6
(verb) to be forced to accept;
- 硬筆ngaang6 bat1
generic term for hard writing instruments such as quill pens, fountain pens, ball pens and pencils, as opposed to writing brushes
- 硬糖ngaang6 tong2
hard candy
- 僵硬goeng1 ngaang6
stiff; rigid
- 監硬gaam3 ngaang2
forcefully; without consent (spoken)
- 硬晒ngaang6 saai3
harden; stiff; erect (penis) [colloquial]
- 生硬saang1 ngaang6
rigid; stiff; lacking naturalness or smoothness; awkward; forced
- 夾硬gaap3 ngaang2
(adverb) forcibly
- 硬性ngaang6 sing3
rigid