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软硬兼施
ruǎn​yìng​jiān​shī

to use both carrot and stick

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
软硬兼施 軟硬兼施 ruǎn​yìng​jiān​shī
to use both carrot and stick
to use both gentle and forceful methods simultaneously; to use an iron hand in a velvet glove

Frequency

Movie subtitles
0.240 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
0.518 per million

Sources

Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)