| 屈辱 | qū rǔ | to humiliate / humiliating |   |
| 损人 | sǔn rén | to harm others / to mock people / to taunt / humiliating | |
| 降格 | jiàng gé | to downgrade / to lower the standard / degrading / humiliating | |
| 不平等条约 | bù píng děng tiáo yuē | (term coined c. 1920s) unequal treaty &ndash / a treaty between China and one or more aggressor nations (including Russia, Japan and various Western powers) which imposed humiliating conditions on China (in the 19th and early 20th centuries) | |
| 丧权辱国 | sàng quán rǔ guó | to forfeit sovereignty and humiliate the country (idiom) / to surrender territory under humiliating terms | |
| 夹起尾巴 | jiā qǐ wěi ba | to tuck one's tail between one's legs / fig. to back down / in a humiliating situation | |
| 无颜见江东父老 | wú yán jiàn Jiāng dōng fù lǎo | (idiom) to be unable to return to one's hometown due to the shame of failure (originally referred to Xiang Yu 項羽|项羽[Xiang4 Yu3], who chose not to retreat to Jiangdong after his humiliating defeat) | |
