忍气吞声
Traditional form:
忍氣吞聲
Pinyin (reading):
rěnqìtūnshēng
Definitions:
- to submit to humiliation (idiom); to suffer in silence
- to swallow one's anger
- to grin and bear it
Characters:
- 忍 - to endure, to bear, to suffer, to tolerate
- 气 - air, gas; steam, vapor; anger
- 吞 - to absorb, to annex; to engulf; to swallow
- 声 - sound, noise; voice, tone, music
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