吃软不吃硬
Traditional form:
吃軟不吃硬
Pinyin (reading):
chīruǎnbùchīyìng
Definitions:
- lit. eats soft food, but refuses hard food (idiom)
- amenable to coaxing but not coercion
Characters:
- 吃 - to eat; to drink; to suffer, to endure, to bear
- 软 - soft, pliable, flexible; weak
- 不 - no, not, un-; negative prefix
- 吃 - to eat; to drink; to suffer, to endure, to bear
- 硬 - firm, hard, strong; obstinate
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