"Submissive" • Chinese-English Dictionary
| 拱手 | gǒng shǒu | to cup one's hands in obeisance or greeting / (fig.) submissive |  |
| 低眉顺眼 | dī méi shùn yǎn | docile / submissive | |
| 濡忍 | rú rěn | compliant / submissive | |
| 弱受 | ruò shòu | submissive / yielding / weak / opposite: 強攻|强攻, dominant | |
| 温良忍让 | wēn liáng rěn ràng | submissive / accommodating | |
| 服服帖帖 | fú fu tiē tiē | submissive / docile / obedient | |
| 低首下心 | dī shǒu xià xīn | to be fawningly submissive (idiom) |  |
| 冲挹 | chōng yì | to defer to / to be submissive | |
| 媳妇熬成婆 | xí fù áo chéng pó | lit. even a submissive daughter-in-law will one day become a domineering mother-in-law (idiom) / fig. the oppressed will become the oppressor / what goes around comes around | |
| 千依百顺 | qiān yī bǎi shùn | totally submissive (idiom) | |
| 翅膀硬 | chì bǎng yìng | (of a bird) to fledge / (fig.) (of a person) to outgrow the need to be submissive to one's parents, mentor etc / to break away from the people who have supported one up to now | |
