to tuck one's tail between one's legs; fig. to back down; in a humiliating situation
trad. 夾起尾巴
Also written 夾起尾巴【jiā qǐ wěi ba】
Characters in this word
4夹
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used in 夾肢窩|夹肢窝[ga1 zhi5 wo1]
- Pinyin
- gā
- Traditional
- 夾
- Strokes
- 6
- Frequency
- 6049 of 2500
起
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to rise, to raise, to get up, to set out, to start, to appear, to launch, to initiate (action), to draft, to establish, to get (from a depot or counter), verb suffix, to start, starting from (a time, place, price etc), classifier for occurrences or unpredictable events: case, instance, classifier for groups: batch, group
- Pinyin
- qǐ
- Strokes
- 10
- Frequency
- 687 of 2500
尾
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tail, remainder, remnant, extremity, sixth of the 28 constellations, classifier for fish
- Pinyin
- wěi
- Strokes
- 7
- Frequency
- 9230 of 2500
巴
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Ba, a state during the Zhou dynasty (in present-day Chongqing and the eastern part of Sichuan), the east of Sichuan and Chongqing Municipality, surname Ba, (bound form) abbr. for 巴勒斯坦[Ba1 le4 si1 tan3] (Palestine), 巴基斯坦[Ba1 ji1 si1 tan3] (Pakistan) or 巴西[Ba1 xi1] (Brazil)
- Pinyin
- Bā
- Strokes
- 4
- Frequency
- 3789 of 2500