かたい

Japanese

Adjective

かたい • (katai) -i (adverbial かたく (kataku))

1. 硬い: keeping its physical shape or appearance under a force: stiff
2. 固い: keeping its shape or behaviour even under other influences: hard, firm
3. 堅い: keeping its shape or behaviour by its excellent quality: rigid, serious
4. 難い: hard to do, difficult

Noun

かたい • (katai) 

1. 乞丐, 乞食, 傍居: begging, panhandling
2. 下腿: the lower leg, between knee and ankle
3. 化体: a manifestation
4. 過怠, 科怠: negligence
5. 歌体: the main theme or expression of a song or poem; the form of a 和歌 (waka, traditional Japanese poem)
6. 禍胎: the origin of a disaster, the cause of a calamity
7. 靴帯: a shoelace (rare, obsolete)