also: かちんかちん
rock hard; stiff and unyielding
Describes something extremely hard or frozen solid, or a person who is rigid, tense, or inflexible in attitude.
The meat I put in the freezer is frozen rock hard.
He became stiff and unyielding during the interview and couldn't speak well.
clangor; clanging sound
Onomatopoeic use for a hard, metallic clanging noise, such as two hard objects striking each other repeatedly.
A clanging metallic sound can be heard from the construction site.
Hiragana variant of the カチンカチン form.
Hiragana spelling, often used in casual writing.
Onomatopoeic word derived from the sound of hard objects striking each other (カチン) and the state of being hard (コチン). The exact derivation is uncertain, but it is a reduplicative mimetic word.