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Chinese Character/Word:
Definition(s) for: 吃软不吃硬
| Hanzi | Pinyin | Definition(s) |
|---|---|---|
| 吃软不吃硬 | chī ruǎn bù chī yìng | - lit. eats soft food, but refuses hard food (idiom) - amenable to coaxing but not coercion |
List Ranking:
Where rank 1 is most common, and higher numbers are less common.
| HSK 2 Level (2012) | HSK 3 Band (2022) | SUBTLEX-CH | BeijingUni Global | BeijingUni Weibo |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| - | - | - | 60,771 | 26,445 |
Individual Character Breakdown:
| Simp | Pinyin | Eng |
|---|---|---|
| 吃 | chī | - to eat; to consume - to eat at (a cafeteria etc) - to eradicate; to destroy - to absorb - to suffer (shock, injury, defeat etc) |
| 吃 | chī | - variant of 吃[chi1] |
| 软 | ruǎn | - soft - flexible |
| 软 | ruǎn | - variant of 軟|软[ruan3] |
| 不 | bù | - no; not so - (bound form) not; un- |
| 吃 | chī | - to eat; to consume - to eat at (a cafeteria etc) - to eradicate; to destroy - to absorb - to suffer (shock, injury, defeat etc) |
| 吃 | chī | - variant of 吃[chi1] |
| 硬 | yìng | - hard; stiff; solid - (fig.) strong; firm - resolutely; uncompromisingly - laboriously; with great difficulty - good (quality); able (person) - (of food) filling; substantial |
Other Words Containing 吃软不吃硬
Sorted by the 'SUBTLEX-CH' rank because that seems like the most reliable. Words without a SUBTLEX-CH rank are ignored for being too rare.
| Word | HSK 2 Level (2012) | HSK 3 Band (2022) | SUBTLEX-CH | BeijingUni Global | BeijingUni Weibo |
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