凉拌

Traditional form:

涼拌

Pinyin (reading):

liángbàn

Definitions:

• to dress cold food with sauce
• (slang) there's not much you can do about it (wordplay using 拌 (bàn) instead of its homophone 辦／办 (bàn))

Characters:

• 凉 - cool, cold; disheartened
• 拌 - to mix

Traditional characters:

• 涼 - cool, cold; disheartened
• 拌 - to mix