the hard is lost

the hard is lost

As a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is ch ǐ w á ngsh é C ú n, which means that the hard one is easy to break and the soft one can always be preserved. From Shuoyuan Jingshen.

Analysis of Idioms

Soft can overcome hard, teeth open tongue exist

Idiom usage

Don't you know the reason why the teeth die and the tongue survives?

The origin of Idioms

In Shuoyuan Jingshen written by Liu Xiang of Han Dynasty: "is it not because of the softness of a man's tongue? Is it not because of its hardness that teeth die? "