生 硬

shēngyìng

adjectiveHSK 7-9

“Rigid” in Chinese is 生硬 (shēngyìng).

Meaning

rigid; stiff; lacking naturalness or smoothness; awkward; forced

Example

写得还不错，就是最后的几句话稍微太生硬了吧。

Example sentence from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0).

Characters

shēngHSK 15 strokesto grow; to give birth; to produce; to be born yìngHSK 512 strokeshard; stiff; solid

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