糖衣炮弹
Traditional form:
糖衣炮彈
Pinyin (reading):
tángyīpàodàn
Definitions:
- sugar-coated bullets, term used by Mao (originally in 1949) to refer to corrupting bourgeois influences
Characters:
- 糖 - candy, sugar, sweets
- 衣 - cloth; clothes, apparel; dress, coat
- 炮 - cannon, artillery
- 弹 - bullet, pellet, shell; elastic, springy
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