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硬直 (こうちょく): Rigid / inflexible — Japanese vocabulary

硬直 is read こうちょく and means "Rigid / inflexible". JLPT N1 word with pitch accent and an example sentence.

硬直

Reading
こうちょく · kouchoku
Translation
Rigid / inflexible
Level
JLPT N1
Pitch accent
こうちょくが

Example

彼らの筋肉は硬直している。

かれらのきんにくはこうちょくしている。

Their muscles are stiff.

Kanji in this word

  • 硬 — hard, stiff
  • 直 — straight, fix

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