强 硬

qiángyìng

adjectiveHSK 7-9

“Tough” in Chinese is 强硬 (qiángyìng).

Meaning

tough
unyielding
hard-line

Example

我们不够强硬。

We weren't violent enough.

Example sentence from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0).

Characters

qiángHSK 312 strokesstubborn yìngHSK 512 strokeshard; stiff; solid

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