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糖彈

简糖弹 · 繁糖彈

Mandarin · pinyin táng dàn

sugar-coated bullets, term used by Mao (originally in 1949) to refer to corrupting bourgeois influences (abbr. for 糖衣炮彈 táng yī pào dàn)

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糖: táng · sugar; candy; sweets
彈: Look up this written character
弹: dàn · pellet, bullet, shot, shell

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2–4 · tang2 dan4

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(abbreviation, alt-of) short for 糖衣炮彈／糖衣炮弹 (tángyī pàodàn)

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