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狠

hěn

very; quite

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Meaning of 狠 in English

hěnHSK 6adjective, verb, adverbSyllabus #4146
  1. very; quite
  2. ruthless; fierce; ferocious
  3. determined; resolute
  4. (also, often used before an adjective without intensifying its meaning, i.e. as a meaningless syntactic element)
  5. to harden (one's heart)
  6. old variant of 很[hen3]

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HSK words with 狠

凶狠HSK 7–9

Level, pinyin and part of speech: HSK Syllabus (CLEC, Nov 2025). Definitions: CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0. Sources & licences