The teacher scolded his students severely.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
狠狠
resolutely
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
resolutely
02
firmly
03
ferociously
04
ruthlessly
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 狠狠 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 狠狠 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
The teacher gave his pupils a tongue-lashing.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 狠狠.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 狠狠.
Directly before
- 学生狠狠1
- 老师狠狠1
Directly after
- 狠狠地2
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 狠狠
What does 狠狠 mean in Chinese?
狠狠 (hěnhěn) means resolutely.
How do you pronounce 狠狠?
狠狠 is pronounced hěnhěn.
Is 狠狠 an HSK word?
狠狠 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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