Illustration: At a Japanese kitchen counter, a teenager braces a freshly opened tub of ice cream with one hand and presses a spoon into it with the other. The frost-covered surface remains almost perfectly intact, bearing only a shallow scratch beneath the spoon tip.

JLPT N1na-adjectiveLevel estimated by Bebop

カチカチ

kachikachi

hard, frozen solid

Example sentences

  1. カチカチに凍こおってる。

    It’s frozen solid.

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  2. 洗面器せんめんきの水みずがかちかちに凍こおった。

    The water in the basin has frozen solid.

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  3. 牛乳ぎゅうにゅうが凍こおって、カチカチになったんだ。

    The milk froze and became solid.

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