糖衣炮弹 táng yī pào dàn

DEFINITIONS

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

CHARACTERS

糖 táng sugar; candy; sweets
衣 yī clothes, clothing; cover, skin
炮 pào large gun, cannon; artillery
弹 dàn pellet, bullet, shot, shell