| 吃软不吃硬 |
chī ruǎn bù chī yìng |
lit. eats soft food, but refuses hard food (idiom) / amenable to coaxing but not coercion |
| 吃 |
chī |
to eat; to consume / to eat at (a cafeteria etc) / to eradicate; to destroy / to absorb / to suffer (shock, injury, defeat etc) |
| 吃 |
chī |
variant of 吃 |
| 软 |
ruǎn |
soft / flexible |
| 软 |
ruǎn |
variant of 软 |
| 不 |
bù |
no; not so / (bound form) not; un- |
| 吃 |
chī |
to eat; to consume / to eat at (a cafeteria etc) / to eradicate; to destroy / to absorb / to suffer (shock, injury, defeat etc) |
| 吃 |
chī |
variant of 吃 |
| 硬 |
yìng |
hard; stiff; solid / (fig.) strong; firm / resolutely; uncompromisingly / laboriously; with great difficulty / good (quality); able (person) / (of food) filling; substantial |