See 硬骨頭 in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"roman": "Lìrú jìngōng mǒu yī yùndòng zhōng zhī dí, dǎ zǎo le, bàolù le zìjǐ, gěi le dírén yǐ yùfáng tiáojiàn; dǎ chí le, dí yǐ jízhōng zhùzhǐ, biànwéi kěn yìnggǔtou.",
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If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.