外剛內柔 Save Create a free account to save words Simplified: 外刚内柔 wàigāngnèiróu ㄨㄞˋ ㄍㄤ ㄋㄟˋ ㄖㄡˊ 男 女 soft on the inside despite one's hard shell appearing tough on the outside as to mask one's inner vulnerability Character by character 外(wài)outside 剛(gāng)hard 內(nèi)inside 柔(róu)soft Sign up for a free account to save words and review them A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0