HSK 6 · Verbs

屈服 qūfú “to yield” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 屈服 means

  1. to yield
  2. to give in
  3. to submit
  4. to surrender
  5. to succumb
More meanings from CC-CEDICT
  • (as a transitive verb) to defeat
  • to prevail over

How to say 屈服

  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale屈qū1st tone, high and level
  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale服fú2nd tone, rising

屈服 in a sentence

  1. 我不会向她屈服。

    Wǒ bú huì xiàng tā qūfú.

    I won’t give in to her.

    Sentence #5630424 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 不要屈服于这些要求。

    Búyào qūfú yú zhèxiē yāoqiú.

    Don’t give in to these demands.

    Sentence #798320 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

How 屈服 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 屈 (qū) with each of its parts in a different colour
屈qūbent
  • 尸corpse · shīMeaning part
  • 出to go out · chūSound part

尸 hints at the meaning (corpse); 出 (chū) hints at the sound. Compare it with qū.

The character 服 (fú) with each of its parts in a different colour
服fúclothes
  • 月moon · yuè
  • 卩seal · jié
  • 又again · yòu

How to write 屈服

屈 8 strokes · 服 8 strokes

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屈服 (qūfú) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 屈服 (qūfú). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 屈服

Words with 屈

委屈wěiqu · to feel wronged

Words with 服

衣服yīfu · clothes服务员fúwùyuán · waiter舒服shūfu · comfortable服务fúwù · to serve服装fúzhuāng · dress说服shuōfú · to persuade克服kèfú · to overcome (difficulties)佩服pèifú · to admire制服zhìfú · uniform服从fúcóng · to obey

More words: Common Verbs

全力以赴quánlìyǐfù · to go all out确保quèbǎo · to ensure确立quèlì · to establish缺席quēxí · to be absent染rǎn · to dye扰乱rǎoluàn · to disturb惹祸rěhuò · to cause trouble容纳róngnà · to hold

FAQs

屈服 (qūfú) means “to yield” or “to give in”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it qūfú: qū with a 1st tone, then fú with a 2nd tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 屈服 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type qufu with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 屈服 from the suggestions. Typing qufu into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
屈服 is an HSK 6 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.