狠
hěn HSK6

vicious

狠 hěn
ruthless adjective
ruthless, fierce, or ferocious in nature or action

对待敌人要狠，不能有半点仁慈。

duì​dài dí​rén yào hěn, bù néng yǒu bàn​diǎn rén​cí.

One must be ruthless toward the enemy and show no mercy.

harden heart adjective
to suppress one's emotions or harden one's heart to make a difficult decision

他狠了狠心，卖掉了陪伴自己多年的老车。

tā hěn le hěn​xīn, mài​diào le péi​bàn zì​jǐ duō nián de lǎo chē.

He steeled himself and sold the old car that had been with him for many years.

resolute adverb
determined, resolute, or firm in one's efforts or attitude

我们要狠抓生产安全，绝不能掉以轻心。

wǒ​men yào hěn​zhuā shēng​chǎn ān​quán, jué bù néng diào​yǐ​qīng​xīn.

We must pay close attention to production safety and must not take it lightly.

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