以柔克刚 yǐróukègāng to use softness to overcome hardness Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 以柔克刚 以柔克剛 yǐróukègāng to use softness to overcome hardness to use gentle or flexible means to overcome a powerful or rigid force; to defeat strength through softness Frequency Movie subtitles 0.090 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 0.264 per million Cross-References Same as 以柔制刚 yǐróuzhìgāng摧刚为柔 cuīgāngwéiróu Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
以柔克刚 以柔克剛 yǐróukègāng to use softness to overcome hardness to use gentle or flexible means to overcome a powerful or rigid force; to defeat strength through softness Frequency Movie subtitles 0.090 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 0.264 per million Cross-References Same as 以柔制刚 yǐróuzhìgāng摧刚为柔 cuīgāngwéiróu Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)