玻璃心

bōlixīn
noun

Meanings

  1. 1 overly sensitive (slang)
  2. 2 thin-skinned
  3. 3 glass heart — easily offended person

Examples

Jiù kāi gè wánxiào éryǐ, bié zhème bōli xīn.
It's just a joke, don't be so thin-skinned.
Tā bōli xīn, shuōhuà yào xiǎoxīn diǎn.
He's got a glass heart — be careful what you say to him.

Tips

register
Internet slang, often pejorative. Used both as a noun ('a thin-skinned person') and predicatively ('to be thin-skinned'). Similar to English 'snowflake'.
memory
玻璃 (glass) + (heart) — a heart that shatters easily. The metaphor writes itself.

Stroke Order

xīn