狠
hěn HSK6

vicious

狠 hěn
resolute adverb
firm; resolute; determined; severe or stern
ruthless adjective
ruthless; fierce; cruel; ferocious; hardhearted
to harden one's heart
to suppress one's feelings to do something difficult or cruel, often used in the form 狠心 hěn​xīn or doubled as 狠了狠心 hěn​le​hěn​xīn
very
old variant of 很 hěn meaning "very" or "quite"

Cross-References

Same as

Frequency
Character
Written text
1,654th most common 57.4 per million
Movie subtitles
1,606th most common 36.7 per million appears in 14% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
16.2 per million appears in 7% of films
Written text
30.5 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 6
HSK 3.0
Level 6
Strokes
9
Unicode
U+72E0

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