| 糖衣炮弹 |
táng yī pào dàn |
sugar-coated bullets, term used by Mao (originally in 1949) to refer to corrupting bourgeois influences |
| 糖 |
táng |
sugar / sweets / candy / CL:颗,块 |
| 糖 |
táng |
old variant of 糖 |
| 糖衣 |
táng yī |
frosting or icing (on cakes etc) / sugarcoating |
| 衣 |
yī |
clothes / CL:件 / Kangxi radical 145 |
| 衣 |
yì |
to dress / to wear / to put on (clothes) |
| 炮 |
bāo |
to sauté / to fry / to dry by heating |
| 炮 |
páo |
to prepare herbal medicine by roasting or parching (in a pan) |
| 炮 |
pào |
cannon / CL:座 / firecracker |
| 炮 |
pào |
variant of 炮 |
| 炮弹 |
pào dàn |
artillery shell / CL:枚 |
| 弹 |
dàn |
crossball / bullet / shot / shell / ball |
| 弹 |
tán |
to pluck (a string) / to play (a string instrument) / to spring or leap / to shoot (e.g. with a catapult) / (of cotton) to fluff or tease / to flick / to flip / to accuse / to impeach / elastic (of materials) |