Illustration: At a Japanese pottery studio workbench, a learner presses a fingertip into each of two similarly sized clay lumps. The fresh clay sinks deeply beneath one finger, while the partly dried lump holds its shape under the other, visibly flattened fingertip.

JLPT N2nounLevel estimated by Bebop

硬かたさ

katasa

hardness, firmness

Example sentences

  1. 出来上できあがった豆腐とうふは十分じゅうぶんな硬かたさがあるため水みずにさらさない。

    The resultant tofu isn’t soaked in water because it’s hard enough.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

  2. 強つよいコシ、硬かたさ、太ふとさを特徴とくちょうとしており、慣なれないとすすったうどんが噛かみ切きれないほどである。

    Yoshida Udon is so elastic, hard, and wide that beginners may find difficulty in biting through the sipped noodles.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

  3. これはカツオ産品さんぴんを削けずったものと考かんがえられることから、単たんなる干物ひものではない、かなりの硬かたさのものとなっていたことが想像そうぞうできる。

    This could have been a considerably hard material rather than just a stockfish, because it seems to have comprised shaved pieces of a bonito product.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

Kanji in 硬

  • 硬stiff; hardOnコウKunかたい

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