shēng yìng

HSK 7–9

生硬 (shēng yìng) is a Chinese word meaning “rigid; stiff; lacking naturalness or smoothness; awkward; forced”.

Meanings

  1. 1rigid; stiff; lacking naturalness or smoothness; awkward; forced
Part of speech
adjective

Characters in 生硬

生shēng · to grow; to give birth; to produce; to be born硬yìng · hard; stiff; solid

Related words

先生teacher发生to happen; to occur; to take place; to break out生活to live医生doctor; medical practitioner生命life (as the characteristic of living beings)生to grow; to give birth; to produce; to be born生气to get angry; to be furious生日birthday生意life force生意business学生student人生life (one's time on earth)

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