软硬兼施 Save Sign in to save words Traditional (Taiwan): 軟硬兼施 ruǎnyìngjiānshī ㄖㄨㄢˇ ㄧㄥˋ ㄐㄧㄢ ㄕ use both carrot and stick use gentle methods and force an iron hand in a velvet glove Character by character 软(ruǎn)soft 硬(yìng)hard 兼(jiān)double 施(shī)surname Shi A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0