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硬い (katai)

solid,hard (esp. metal, stone),unpolished writing

  • JLPT N3

Meaning

硬い (かたい, katai) is a JLPT N3 vocabulary word meaning “solid,hard (esp. metal, stone),unpolished writing”.

Kanji in this word

Example sentences 3

ニッケルは硬かたい銀ぎん白色はくしょくの金属きんぞくです。

Nickel is a hard, silver-white metal.

私わたしはカーペットよりも硬かたい木きの床ゆかが好すきです。

I prefer hardwood floors to carpet.

斜行刃型の爪切りでは巻き爪のように爪長方向の途中の太くて硬い爪を切断するには剪断力が顕在化することに伴って困難である点、及び直進刃型の爪切りでは爪の先端から切断箇所へ送るために、巻き爪の肉に食い込んだ該先端を切断箇所へ送ることができない点を解消する。

To solve the following problems: it is difficult to cut an ingrown nail or the like that is thick and hard in the middle of the length direction by a nail clipper with an oblique blade due to the presence of shearing force; and a nail clipper with a straight blade cannot feed the top of the ingrown nail buried into a finger to its cutting position.

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