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忍气吞声

rěn qì tūn shēng

4-character word Traditional 忍氣吞聲

What 忍气吞声 means

  1. to submit to humiliation (idiom); to suffer in silence
  2. to swallow one's anger
  3. to grin and bear it

The characters in 忍气吞声

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