外强中干 Save Create a free account to save words Traditional (Taiwan): 外強中乾 wàiqiángzhōnggān ㄨㄞˋ ㄑㄧㄤˊ ㄓㄨㄥ ㄍㄢ 男 女 strong in appearance but weak in reality (idiom) Character by character 外(wài)outside 强(qiáng)strong 中(zhōng)middle 干(gān)dry 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