lit. eats soft food, but refuses hard food (idiom); amenable to coaxing but not coercion
trad. 吃軟不吃硬
Also written 吃軟不吃硬【chī ruǎn bù chī yìng】
Characters in this word
4吃
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0
to eat; to consume, to eat at (a cafeteria etc), to eradicate; to destroy, to absorb, to suffer (shock, injury, defeat etc)
- Pinyin
- chī
- Strokes
- 6
- Frequency
- 143 of 2500
软
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0
soft, flexible
- Pinyin
- ruǎn
- Traditional
- 軟
- Strokes
- 8
- Frequency
- 8696 of 2500
不
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0
no; not so, (bound form) not; un-
- Pinyin
- bù
- Strokes
- 4
- Frequency
- 9 of 2500
硬
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hard; stiff; solid, (fig.) strong; firm, resolutely; uncompromisingly, laboriously; with great difficulty, good (quality); able (person), (of food) filling; substantial
- Pinyin
- yìng
- Strokes
- 12
- Frequency
- 3082 of 2500