Chinese symbol for “forcibly”
硬生生
yìng shēng shēng
stiff; rigid; inflexible; forcibly
The closest CC-CEDICT match for forcibly is 硬生生 (yìng shēng shēng), defined as: stiff; rigid; inflexible; forcibly.
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Characters and stroke order
Related words
Other words that share a character with 硬生生.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 硬件 | yìng jiàn | hardware |
| 硬币 (硬幣) | yìng bì | coin; measure word: 枚 (méi) |
| 强硬 (強硬) | qiáng yìng | tough; unyielding |
| 硬盘 (硬盤) | yìng pán | hard disk |
| 坚硬 (堅硬) | jiān yìng | hard; solid |
| 硬度 | yìng dù | hardness |
| 发生 (發生) | fā shēng | to happen; to occur; to take place; to arise (e.g. 发生问题 (fā shēng wèn tí) "a problem arises") |
| 生活 | shēng huó | to live; life |
| 学生 (學生) | xué sheng | student; schoolchild |
See also: Japanese symbol for “forcibly”.
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.