HSK 6 · Adjectives

僵硬 jiāngyìng “stiff” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 僵硬 means

  1. stiff
  2. rigid

How to say 僵硬

  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale僵jiāng1st tone, high and level
  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale硬yìng4th tone, falling

僵硬 in a sentence

  1. 他吓得全身僵硬。

    Tā xià de quánshēn jiāngyìng.

    He was so scared his whole body went stiff.

    Sentence #5505578 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

How 僵硬 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 僵 (jiāng) with each of its parts in a different colour
僵jiāngrigid
  • 亻person form of 人 · rénMeaning part
  • 畺boundary · jiāngSound part

亻 hints at the meaning (person); 畺 (jiāng) hints at the sound. Compare it with jiāng.

The character 硬 (yìng) with each of its parts in a different colour
硬yìnghard; stiff; solid
  • 石stone · shíMeaning part
  • 更more · gēngSound part

石 hints at the meaning (stone); 更 (gēng) hints at the sound. Compare it with yìng.

How to write 僵硬

僵 15 strokes · 硬 12 strokes

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僵硬 (jiāngyìng) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 僵硬 (jiāngyìng). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 僵硬

Words with 硬

硬yìng · hard硬件yìngjiàn · hardware坚硬jiānyìng · hard

More words: Adjectives

混浊hùnzhuó · murky坚定jiāndìng · firm见多识广jiànduōshíguǎng · well-informed and experienced坚固jiāngù · sturdy间接jiànjiē · indirect简陋jiǎnlòu · simple and crude艰难jiānnán · difficult健全jiànquán · sound

FAQs

僵硬 (jiāngyìng) means “stiff” or “rigid”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it jiāngyìng: jiāng with a 1st tone, then yìng with a 4th tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 僵硬 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type jiangying with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 僵硬 from the suggestions. Typing jiangying into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
僵硬 is an HSK 6 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.