Chinese symbol for “fawning”
卑躬屈膝
bēi gōng qū xī
to bow and bend the knee (idiom); fawning; bending and scraping to curry favor
The closest CC-CEDICT match for fawning is 卑躬屈膝 (bēi gōng qū xī), defined as: to bow and bend the knee (idiom); fawning; bending and scraping to curry favor.
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “fawning”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 奴颜婢膝 (奴顏婢膝) | nú yán bì xī | servile and bending the knee (idiom); fawning; bending and scraping to curry favor |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 卑躬屈膝.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 卑鄙 | bēi bǐ | base; mean |
| 自卑 | zì bēi | to have low self-esteem; to abase oneself |
| 卑劣 | bēi liè | base; mean |
| 谦卑 (謙卑) | qiān bēi | humble |
| 卑微 | bēi wēi | lowly; humble |
| 卑贱 (卑賤) | bēi jiàn | lowly; mean and low |
| 鞠躬 | jū gōng | to bow; (literary) to bend down |
| 鞠躬尽瘁 (鞠躬盡瘁) | jū gōng jìn cuì | to bend to a task and spare no effort (idiom); striving to the utmost |
| 屈服 | qū fú | to surrender; to succumb |
| 膝盖 (膝蓋) | xī gài | knee; (Internet slang) to kneel down (in admiration) |
See also: Japanese symbol for “fawning”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.