软件(ruǎn jiàn): software

Watch how each character of 软件 is written, one at a time. When a character is finished, the next one draws.

How 软件 is used in everyday Chinese — the speaker reads the whole sentence.

• 一个办法是用硬件而不是软件，来消除这个瓶颈。

  yī gè bàn fǎ shì yòng yìng jiàn ér bù shì ruǎn jiàn lái xiāo chú zhè ge píng jǐng

  One solution is to use hardware, rather than software, to eliminate this bottleneck.