"Subordinate" • Chinese-English Dictionary
| 下属 | xià shǔ | subordinate / underling |   |
| 附属 | fù shǔ | subsidiary / auxiliary / attached / affiliated / subordinate / subordinating | |
| 从 |  cóng | from / through / via / (bound form) to follow / (bound form) to obey / (bound form) to engage in (an activity) / (used before a negative) ever / (bound form) (Taiwan pr. [zong4]) retainer / attendant / (bound form) (Taiwan pr. [zong4]) assistant / auxiliary / subordinate / (bound form) (Taiwan pr. [zong4]) related by common paternal grandfather or earlier ancestor | |
| 所属 | suǒ shǔ | one's affiliation (i.e. the organization one is affiliated with) / subordinate (i.e. those subordinate to oneself) / belonging to / affiliated / under one's command | |
| 属下 | shǔ xià | subordinate / affiliated to / subsidiary | |
| 部下 | bù xià | troops under one's command / subordinate | |
| 下级 | xià jí | low ranking / low level / underclass / subordinate | |
| 部属 | bù shǔ | troops under one's command / subordinate / affiliated to a ministry | |
| 子 | zǐ | son / child / seed / egg / small thing / 1st earthly branch: 11 p.m.-1 a.m., midnight, 11th solar month (7th December to 5th January), year of the rat / viscount, fourth of five orders of nobility 五等爵位[wu3deng3 jue2wei4] / ancient Chinese compass point: 0° / (north) / subsidiary / subordinate / (prefix) sub- | |
| 从属 | cóng shǔ | subordinate | |
| 附庸 | fù yōng | vassal / dependent / subordinate / subservient / appendage | |
| 裨 | pí | subordinate / secondary / small | |
| 簉 | zào | deputy / subordinate / concubine | |
| 属吏 | shǔ lì | (old) subordinate / underling | |
| 直属 | zhí shǔ | directly subordinate | |
| 批复 | pī fù | to reply officially to a subordinate | |
| 隶属 | lì shǔ | to be subordinate to / to be under the jurisdiction of | |
| 批示 | pī shì | to write comments on a report submitted by a subordinate / written comments from a superior | |
| 器重 | qì zhòng | to regard sth as valuable / to think highly of (a younger person, a subordinate etc) | |
| 尊卑 | zūn bēi | superior and subordinate / social ranking | |
| 属 | shǔ | category / genus (taxonomy) / family members / dependents / to belong to / subordinate to / affiliated with / be born in the year of (one of the 12 animals) / to be / to prove to be / to constitute | |
| 隶 | lì | (bound form) a person in servitude / low-ranking subordinate / (bound form) to be subordinate to / (bound form) clerical script (the style of characters intermediate between ancient seal and modern regular characters) | |
| 打狗欺主 | dǎ gǒu qī zhǔ | to beat a dog and bully its owner / fig. to humiliate sb indirectly by bullying a subordinate | |
| 附属腺 | fù shǔ xiàn | subordinate gland | |
| 下级部队 | xià jí bù duì | subordinate command | |
| 下级司令部 | xià jí sī lìng bù | subordinate command | |
| 次级立法 | cì jí lì fǎ | subordinate legislation / subsidiary statutes / auxiliary laws / enabling regulations | |
| 附属立法 | subordinate legislation / subsidiary statutes / auxiliary laws / enabling regulations | | |
| 下属军事委员会 | subordinate military commission | | |
| 下属文职委员会 | subordinate civilian commission | | |
| 故吏 | gù lì | (literary) former subordinate | |
