noun:

• dealing a hard (heavy, crushing) blow (to) - four character idiom

noun:

• hard ball; regulation ball Antonym: 軟球

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to find it hard to say

adjective:

• hard to control; unmanageable

noun:

• hard line; hard-line; tough line; hawkish line - four character idiom

noun:

• hard-liners; diehards; hawks

noun:

• hard training

expression / godan ~つ verb:

• to become hard and fibrous; to go to seed; to have passed one's prime; to have lost the first bloom of one's youth

noun / ~する noun:

• crying hard; crying one's eyes out; loud crying; wailing; profuse weeping

noun / ~する noun:

• hard work

noun:

• hard bop

expression / adjective:

• hard on others but easy on oneself

noun:

• hard-boiled egg - Kansai dialect

expression:

• it is easy to start an enterprise but hard to maintain it - proverb

noun:

• hard-boiled egg - abbreviation - Kansai dialect ➜ 煮抜き卵
• starchy water (from boiled rice)

noun:

• hard-fought win; winning through perseverance

adjective:

• hard to understand; hard to accept

expression:

• It's hard to tell a poor thinker from a sleeping one; They to whom only bad ideas come might as well be asleep; Poor thinking is futile; Inadequate ideas are worse than none at all - proverb ➜ 下手の考え休むに似たり

adjective:

• hard-to-forgive; intolerable; inexcusable; unpardonable

noun:

• hard sauce

adjective:

• hard to see
• obscure; indistinct; illegible

noun:

• Japanese version of baseball played with a hard rubber ball - Sports term ➜ 硬式野球

expression:

• it's hard to notice one's own faults; one does not notice one's own body odour [literal] - proverb

noun:

• hard wood

noun:

• hard candy; candy suckers molded on a griddle; tortoise-shell candy [literal] ➜ 鼈甲色