He has a heart of stone.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
铁石心肠
to have a heart of stone
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
to have a heart of stone
02
hard-hearted
03
unfeeling
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 铁石心肠 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 铁石心肠 appears in 3 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.
Who could melt that stone heart of yours?
No published English translation for this sentence.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 铁石心肠.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 铁石心肠.
Directly before
- 的铁石心肠1
- 他铁石心肠1
- 真是铁石心肠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 铁石心肠
What does 铁石心肠 mean in Chinese?
铁石心肠 (tiěshíxīncháng) means to have a heart of stone.
How do you pronounce 铁石心肠?
铁石心肠 is pronounced tiěshíxīncháng.
Is 铁石心肠 an HSK word?
铁石心肠 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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