倔
juéjuè HSK7

stubborn

倔 jué frequency
stubborn adjective
used in 倔强 jué​jiàng

他这人性格太倔，一旦决定的事情谁也劝不动。

tā zhè rén xìng​gé tài jué, yī​dàn jué​dìng de shì​qing shéi yě quàn bù dòng.

He is so stubborn that once he makes up his mind, no one can talk him out of it.

倔 juè
gruff adjective
gruff; surly

老头子说话口气太倔，让几个年轻人都觉得很难堪。

lǎo​tóu​zi shuō​huà kǒu​qì tài juè, ràng jǐ gè nián​qīng​rén dōu jué​de hěn nán​kān.

The old man spoke in such a stubborn tone that it made several young people feel quite embarrassed.

Frequency
Character
Written text
3,542nd most common 5.09 per million
Movie subtitles
3,415th most common 1.69 per million appears in 1% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
1.25 per million appears in 1% of films
Written text
1.64 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 6
HSK 3.0
Level 7
Strokes
10
Unicode
U+5014

Sources
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)