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坚 — strong; solid; firm

strong; solid; firm; unyielding; resolute

Pinyin
jiān
Strokes
7
HSK level
HSK 3
Handwriting
recognition only

How to write 坚: 7 strokes

Each cell adds one stroke to the previous ones, with the new stroke in red. Stroke order is not decoration: it sets the proportions of the character and makes handwriting legible to a reader. The syllabus asks you to recognise this character rather than write it by hand.

坚 — 7 strokes, in writing order from left to right.

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Words with 坚 in the HSK syllabus: 11

Every word in the official 2026 syllabus that contains this character, with the level it is introduced at. Learning a character pays off through these: each one combines with the characters you already know.

  1. 坚持jiānchíto persevere with; to persist in; to insist onHSK 3
  2. 坚强jiānqiángstaunch; strongHSK 5
  3. 坚定jiāndìngfirm; steady; staunch; resoluteHSK 6
  4. 坚固jiāngùfirm; firmly; hard; stableHSK 6
  5. 坚决jiānjuéfirm; resolute; determinedHSK 6
  6. 坚硬jiānyìnghard; solidHSK 6
  7. 坚果jiānguǒnutHSK 7–9
  8. 坚韧jiānrèntough and durable; tenaciousHSK 7–9
  9. 坚实jiānshífirm and substantial; solidHSK 7–9
  10. 坚守jiānshǒuto hold fast to; to stick toHSK 7–9
  11. 坚信jiānxìnto believe firmly; without any doubtHSK 7–9

Glosses come from CC-CEDICT, used under CC BY-SA 4.0, and are the dictionary’s first sense rather than a translation chosen for context.