Once out of the ground, the cicadas molt and wait for their bodies to dry and harden, then they fly to the tops of trees where they feed and look for a mate, which they do by making a loud buzz.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
变硬
to stiffen
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
to stiffen
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 变硬 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 变硬 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.
No published English translation for this sentence.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 变硬.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 变硬.
Directly before
- 其变硬1
- 乾燥变硬1
Directly after
- No repeated neighbour in the corpus.
ABOUT THIS ENTRY
Where this entry comes from
The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.
Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
COMMON QUESTIONS
About 变硬
What does 变硬 mean in Chinese?
变硬 (biànyìng) means to stiffen.
How do you pronounce 变硬?
变硬 is pronounced biànyìng.
Is 变硬 an HSK word?
变硬 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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