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Chinese Character/Word:

Definition(s) for: 硬化

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
硬化 yìng huà - to harden
- (medicine) sclerosis
- (fig.) to become inflexible in one's opinions; to ossify

List Ranking:

Where rank 1 is most common, and higher numbers are less common.

HSK 2 Level (2012) HSK 3 Band (2022) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo
- - 11,445 13,719 20,266

Individual Character Breakdown:

Simp Pinyin Eng
yìng- hard; stiff; solid
- (fig.) strong; firm
- resolutely; uncompromisingly
- laboriously; with great difficulty
- good (quality); able (person)
- (of food) filling; substantial
huā- variant of 花[hua1]
huà- to make into
- to change into
- -ization
- to ... -ize
- to transform
- abbr. for 化學|化学[hua4 xue2]

Other Words Containing 硬化

Sorted by the 'SUBTLEX-CH' rank because that seems like the most reliable. Words without a SUBTLEX-CH rank are ignored for being too rare.

Word HSK 2 Level (2012) HSK 3 Band (2022) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo
硬化 - - 11,445 13,719 20,266
肝硬化 - - 29,674 17,429 37,535
动脉硬化 - - 42,390 26,227 20,067