servile and bending the knee (idiom); fawning; bending and scraping to curry favor
trad. 奴顏婢膝
Also written 奴顏婢膝【nú yán bì xī】
Characters in this word
4奴
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slave
- Pinyin
- nú
- Strokes
- 5
- Frequency
- 30578 of 2500
颜
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surname Yan
- Pinyin
- Yán
- Traditional
- 顏
- Strokes
- 15
- Frequency
- 42920 of 2500
婢
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slave girl, maid servant
- Pinyin
- bì
- Strokes
- 11
膝
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old variant of 膝[xi1]
- Pinyin
- xī
- Traditional
- 厀
- Strokes
- 15
- Frequency
- 23337 of 2500