憋屈
biē qū
Pinyin

Definition

憋屈
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biē qū
  1. sullen

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

委屈
wěi qu
  1. 1 to feel wronged
  2. 2 to cause sb to feel wronged
  3. 3 grievance
憋
biē
  1. 1 to choke
  2. 2 to stifle
  3. 3 to restrain
  4. 4 to hold back
  5. 5 to hold in (urine)
  6. 6 to hold (one's breath)
屈
Qū
  1. 1 surname Qu
屈原
Qū Yuán
  1. 1 Qu Yuan (340-278 BC), famous Warring States statesman and poet, author of Sorrow at Parting 離騷|离骚 Lisao in Songs of Chu 楚辭|楚辞
屈服
qū fú
  1. 1 to surrender
  2. 2 to succumb
  3. 3 to yield
  4. 4 (as a transitive verb) to defeat
  5. 5 to prevail over

Idioms (9)

卑躬屈膝
bēi gōng qū xī
  1. 1 to bow and bend the knee (idiom); fawning
  2. 2 bending and scraping to curry favor
坚强不屈
jiān qiáng bù qū
  1. 1 staunch and unyielding (idiom); steadfast
坚贞不屈
jiān zhēn bù qū
  1. 1 faithful and unchanging (idiom); steadfast
宁死不屈
nìng sǐ bù qū
  1. 1 rather die than submit (idiom)
屈指可数
qū zhǐ kě shǔ
  1. 1 can be counted on one's fingers (idiom)
  2. 2 very few

Sample Sentences

听你这么说，也真是感同身受，想辞职一定是觉得太憋屈了。
tīng nǐ zhèmeshuō ，yě zhēn shì gǎn tóng shēnshòu ，xiǎng cízhí yīdìng shì juéde tài biēqū le 。
Listening to you, I really have the same experience. That you wanted to resign is because you really felt like you were hard done by.
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这几天出门没看“黄历”，诸事不顺。再加上，付出总是得不到回报，心里很憋屈，不知道整天忙忙碌碌的都是为了什么。
zhè jǐ tiān chūmén méi kàn “huánglì ”，zhūshì bù shùn 。zài jiāshang ，fùchū zǒngshì débudào huíbào ，xīnli hěn biēqū ，bù zhīdào zhěngtiān máng de dōu shì wèile shénme 。
Over the last few days I haven't looked at the Chinese divination almanac before leaving the house, and nothing has gone my way. I also feel like I'm not get anything back for what I do for others, so I feel quite hard done by, and I don't know what I'm spending all this time busying myself for.
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