"Weakened" • Chinese-English Dictionary
| 衰微 | shuāi wēi | to decline / to wane / weakened / enfeebled / in decline |   |
| 国弱民穷 | guó ruò mín qióng | the country weakened and the people empoverished (idiom) | |
| 太平天国之乱 | Tài píng Tiān guó zhī Luàn | Taiping Rebellion (1850-1864), which ultimately failed but caused massive upheaval and weakened the Qing dynasty | |
| 东亚病夫 | Dōng yà bìng fū | (derog.) the sick man of Asia (term used in the West in the late 19th and early 20th centuries to refer to China in its weakened state after the Opium Wars) | |
