weak / frail
Headword or pronunciation脆弱
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weak / frail
Headword or pronunciation脆弱
weak / feeble / young / inferior / not as good as / (following a decimal or fraction) slightly less than
Headword or pronunciation弱
weak point / failing
Headword or pronunciation弱点
weak / feeble / flabby
Headword or pronunciation软弱
weak / in poor health
Headword or pronunciation虚弱
weak-minded / mentally deficient / retarded
Headword or pronunciation弱智
cowardly / weak
Headword or pronunciation懦弱
small and weak / puny / the small and weak / children / women and children
Headword or pronunciation弱小
weak / faint / feeble
Headword or pronunciation微弱
to weaken / to diminish
Headword or pronunciation减弱
weak / frail
Headword or pronunciation薄弱
to weaken / to impair / to cripple
Headword or pronunciation削弱
weak / delicate
Headword or pronunciation柔弱
vulnerable / weak
Headword or pronunciation弱势
weak / feeble
Headword or pronunciation衰弱
thin and weak
Headword or pronunciation瘦弱
not to fight back / to take it lying down / to show weakness / to show one's softer side
Headword or pronunciation示弱
(lit.) the weak are prey to the strong (idiom) / (fig.) the law of the jungle
Headword or pronunciation弱肉强食
delicate / frail / impotent / weak
Headword or pronunciation孱弱
one's weak area
Headword or pronunciation弱项
(lit.) too weak to stand up to the wind (idiom) / (fig.) extremely delicate / fragile
Headword or pronunciation弱不禁风
amblyopia
Headword or pronunciation弱视
(idiom) not to be outdone
Headword or pronunciation不甘示弱
using the weak to defeat the strong (idiom) / to win from a position of weakness
Headword or pronunciation以弱胜强
to use one's strength to bully the weak (idiom)
Headword or pronunciation以强凌弱
the country weakened and the people empoverished (idiom)
Headword or pronunciation国弱民穷
delicate
Headword or pronunciation娇弱
old and weak (idiom)
Headword or pronunciation年老体弱
(physics) weak interaction
Headword or pronunciation弱作用
the weak force (in particle physics)
Headword or pronunciation弱作用力
weak side / off side (sports)
Headword or pronunciation弱侧
disadvantaged social groups (e.g. the handicapped) / the economically and politically marginalized / the dispossessed
Headword or pronunciation弱势群体
weaken / make weaker
Headword or pronunciation弱化
(sports) weak team / underdog (team)
Headword or pronunciation弱旅
(slang) weak / pathetic / subpar / sucks
Headword or pronunciation弱爆
weak interaction (in particle physics) / weak force
Headword or pronunciation弱相互作用
hard of hearing / hearing-impaired
Headword or pronunciation弱听
weak pulse
Headword or pronunciation弱脉
weak acid
Headword or pronunciation弱酸
electro-weak interaction in fermion particle physics
Headword or pronunciation弱电统一