硬
hard; stiff
12 strokes. Jōyō kanji, taught in secondary school. Newspaper frequency rank 1101.
Readings
Components
- 石
- 更
- ノ radical slash, katakana no
- 一 radical one
- 口 radical mouth
- 日 radical sun; day
- 田 radical rice field
- 石 radical stone
Words using 硬
- 硬貨 (こうか) coin
- 強硬 (きょうこう) firm
- 硬化 (こうか) hardening
- 硬式野球 (こうしきやきゅう) regulation baseball (as opposed to the variety played with a rubber ball)
- 硬派 (こうは) hard-liners
- 硬い (かたい) hard
- 硬さ (かたさ) firmness
- 硬め (かため) somewhat hard
- 硬メン (かたメン) dried ramen
- モース硬さ (モースかたさ) Mohs' hardness
118 words in all.