Chinese symbol for “callous”
狠心
hěn xīn
callous; heartless; to resolve (to do sth); firm resolve (as in 下狠心 (xià hěn xīn))
The closest CC-CEDICT match for callous is 狠心 (hěn xīn), defined as: callous; heartless; to resolve (to do sth); firm resolve (as in 下狠心 (xià hěn xīn)).
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “callous”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 冷酷 | lěng kù | unfeeling; callous |
| 冷酷无情 (冷酷無情) | lěng kù wú qíng | cold-hearted; unfeeling; callous |
| 心硬 | xīn yìng | hard-hearted; unfeeling; callous |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 狠心.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 狠狠 | hěn hěn | resolutely; firmly |
| 凶狠 (兇狠) | xiōng hěn | variant of 凶狠 (xiōng hěn) |
| 狠毒 | hěn dú | vicious; malicious |
| 心狠手辣 | xīn hěn shǒu là | (idiom) vicious; merciless |
| 中心 | zhōng xīn | center; heart; core |
| 担心 (擔心) | dān xīn | anxious; worried |
| 关心 (關心) | guān xīn | to be concerned about; to care about |
| 核心 | hé xīn | core; nucleus |
See also: Japanese symbol for “callous”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.