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Frequency data: Cai & Brysbaert, SUBTLEX-CH (2010), Creative Commons Attribution. The data includes word forms with at least 10 occurrences in an older subtitle sample. It does not provide current frequency or HSK levels. Absence from the sample does not establish that a word is rare. Names, variants and restricted readings identified in the source appear after general-use entries within the same match type.

吃软不吃硬chī ruǎn bù chī yìng

lit. eats soft food, but refuses hard food (idiom) / amenable to coaxing but not coercion

嘴硬心软zuǐ yìng xīn ruǎn

see 刀子嘴，豆腐心[dāo zi zuǐ , dòu fu xīn]

固态硬盘gù tài yìng pán

(computing) solid-state drive (SSD)

多发性硬化症duō fā xìng yìng huà zhèng

multiple sclerosis

强硬态度qiáng yìng tài dù

unyielding attitude

强硬立场qiáng yìng lì chǎng

tough position

心硬xīn yìng

hard-hearted / unfeeling / callous

措辞强硬cuò cí qiáng yìng

strongly-worded

服硬fú yìng

to yield to force

机械硬盘jī xiè yìng pán

(computing) hard disk drive (HDD)

死记硬背sǐ jì yìng bèi

to learn by rote / to mechanically memorize

没苦硬吃méi kǔ yìng chī

(neologism, attested by 2024) to stubbornly endure hardships that need not be endured / to go out of one's way to make things difficult for oneself

浆硬jiāng yìng

to starch / to stiffen cloth with starch

烧硬shāo yìng

to fire (pottery)

生拉硬拽shēng lā yìng zhuài

to drag sb along against his will / to draw a forced analogy

白头硬尾鸭bái tóu yìng wěi yā

(bird species of China) white-headed duck (Oxyura leucocephala)

移动硬盘yí dòng yìng pán

portable hard drive / external hard drive

粥样硬化zhōu yàng yìng huà

atherosclerosis / hardening of the arteries

翅膀硬chì bǎng yìng

(of a bird) to fledge / (fig.) (of a person) to outgrow the need to be submissive to one's parents, mentor etc / to break away from the people who have supported one up to now

血管粥样硬化xuè guǎn zhōu yàng yìng huà

atherosclerosis / hardening of the arteries

变硬biàn yìng

to stiffen

软硬不吃ruǎn yìng bù chī

unmoved by force or persuasion

软硬件ruǎn yìng jiàn

software and hardware

软硬兼施ruǎn yìng jiān shī

use both carrot and stick / use gentle methods and force / an iron hand in a velvet glove

软磨硬泡ruǎn mó yìng pào

to coax and pester (idiom) / to wheedle / to cajole