糖衣炮彈 táng yī pào dàn

sweet bribe; sugar-coated lure or trap

Word data

HSK Not in HSK
Frequency Unknown

Definitions

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

Characters

Character Meaning
糖 táng HSK 4
sugar; candy; sweets
衣 yī HSK 1
clothes; Kangxi radical 145; to wear
炮 pào HSK 5
cannon; firecracker; variant of 炮pào
彈 dàn
bullet; shell; shot