糖衣炮弹 in English tang2 yi1 pao4 dan4 Meaning

Meanings

  • sugar-coated bullets, term used by Mao (originally in 1949) to refer to corrupting bourgeois influences

Simplified Characters

糖 衣 炮 弹

Traditional Characters

糖 衣 炮 彈

Pinyin

tang2 yi1 pao4 dan4

Literal

Literal explanation, with pronunciation and meaning of each character.

糖tang2sugar 衣yi1clothes 炮pao4to sauté 弹dan4crossball