以柔克刚

to use softness to conquer strength (idiom)

Characters and words in 以柔克刚

old variant of 以[yi3]
old variant of 以[yi3]

= + : Mnemonic symbol: 㠯 looks like a cool pair of safety goggles.

A ghost (尸) has been hiding from Maud Younger (Ø3) in a mandarin (口). Maud finds the mandarin in the space station's living room (Ø3) and squeezes the ghost out, and in order to (㠯) be protected from the mandarin juice flying all around in zero gravity she is wearing safety goggles (㠯).
abbr. for Israel 以色列[Yi3 se4 lie4]
to use / by means of / according to / in order to / because of / at (a certain date or place)

= + : So this is Neanderthal Man with a fake nose. He has bushy eyebrows, so my symbol for 以 is going to be one of these fake noses that come with additional glasses, eyebrows, and a moustache: Groucho glasses.

= + : Maud Younger and Neanderthal Man prepared some costumes for Halloween in the space station. Neanderthal Man created a big fake nose, while Maud Younger made a pair of Groucho glasses.
soft / flexible / supple / yielding / rho (Greek letter Ρρ)

= + : Robinson Crusoe (r) invented a new judo (柔) flavor in which judo is combined with wielding a soft (柔) rubber lance (矛). He is trying out his new technique by practising with a Christmas tree (木) in the outhouse's kitchen (ou2), trying to bring the tree down with his lance.
abbr. for 克羅地亞|克罗地亚[Ke4 luo2 di4 ya4], Croatia / (Tw) abbr. for 克羅埃西亞|克罗埃西亚[Ke4 luo2 ai1 xi1 ya4], Croatia
to be able to / to subdue / to restrain / to overcome / gram / Tibetan unit of land area, about 6 ares

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a straitjacket

= + : Karl Marx and Sun Wukong both tried to change the world. After they both failed, they went crazy, and now they have to retreat into a cloister in the elevator's bathroom wearing straitjackets.
Ke (c. 2000 BC), seventh of the legendary Flame Emperors, 炎帝[Yan2 di4] descended from Shennong 神農|神农[Shen2 nong2] Farmer God
variant of 克[ke4] / to subdue / to overthrow / to restrain
variant of 剋|克[ke4]
hard / firm / strong / just / barely / exactly

= + : In front of the anglepod, Guy Fawkes just pulled a kitchen knife out of a mound. He's very upset as he was expecting at least a sword. At least the kitchen knife is quite hard.

Words with 以柔克刚

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