软着陆

Traditional form:

軟著陸

Pinyin (reading):

ruǎnzhuólù

Definitions:

• soft landing (e.g. of spacecraft)

Characters:

• 软 - soft, pliable, flexible; weak
• 着 - to make a move, to take action
• 陆 - land, continent; six (bankers' anti-fraud numeral)

Traditional characters:

• 軟 - soft, pliable, flexible; weak
• 著 - to show, to prove, to make known
• 陸 - land, continent; six (bankers' anti-fraud numeral)