忍气吞声 — Chinese idiom
忍气吞声
rěn qì tūn shēng
Traditional: 忍氣吞聲
Meaning
- to submit to humiliation ; to suffer in silence
- to swallow one's anger
- to grin and bear it
Character by character
- 忍rěnto endure, to bear, to suffer, to tolerate
- 气qìair, gas; steam, vapor; anger
- 吞tūnto absorb, to annex; to engulf; to swallow
- 声shēngsound, noise; voice, tone, music
Idioms sharing a character
- 含垢忍辱 hán gòu rěn rǔ
- 忍无可忍 rěn wú kě rěn
- 忍辱偷生 rěn rǔ tōu shēng
- 忍辱负重 rěn rǔ fù zhòng
- 爱不忍释 ài bù rěn shì
- 惨不忍睹 cǎn bù rěn dǔ
- 惨不忍闻 cǎn bù rěn wén
- 目不忍视 mù bù rěn shì
- 一团和气 yī tuán hé qì
- 串通一气 chuàn tōng yī qì
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