糖衣炮弹

sugar-coated bullets, term used by Mao (originally in 1949) to refer to corrupting bourgeois influences

sugar / sweets / candy / CL:顆|颗[ke1],塊|块[kuai4]

old variant of 糖[tang2]

frosting or icing (on cakes etc) / sugarcoating

clothes / CL:件[jian4] / Kangxi radical 145

to dress / to wear / to put on (clothes)

to sauté / to fry / to dry by heating

to prepare herbal medicine by roasting or parching (in a pan)

cannon / CL:座[zuo4] / firecracker

variant of 炮[pao4]

artillery shell / CL:枚[mei2]

crossball / bullet / shot / shell / ball

to pluck (a string) / to play (a string instrument) / to spring or leap / to shoot (e.g. with a catapult) / (of cotton) to fluff or tease / to flick / to flip / to accuse / to impeach / elastic (of materials)