固
gù HSK4

to become solid

固 gù
solid adjective
(bound form) solid; firm; strong; secure; hard (not liquid or gaseous)

为什么岩石看上去，摸上去是固质、坚硬而又无法穿透的呢？

wèi​shén​me yán​shí kàn​shang​qu, mō shang qù shì gù zhì, jiān​yìng ér yòu wú​fǎ chuān tòu de ne?

Why, then, do rocks look and feel solid and hard and impenetrable?

firmly adjective
firmly; resolutely; stubbornly; persistently
to strengthen verb
(bound form) to strengthen; to make firm; to consolidate; to stabilize
admittedly adverb
admittedly; indeed; used in the first part of a sentence to acknowledge a fact before a transition, similar to 固然 gù​rán
originally
originally; inherently; as a matter of course; undoubtedly; of course
Gu
surname Gu
to confine
(literary) to shut; to confine; to keep under restraint

Cross-References

Same as

Frequency
Character
Written text
893rd most common 194.2 per million
Movie subtitles
1,517th most common 41.6 per million appears in 22% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
0.980 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
17.5 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 5
HSK 3.0
Level 4
Strokes
8
Unicode
U+56FA

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