服服帖帖

fúfútiētiē
adjective #35,573

Meanings

  1. 1 completely submissive
  2. 2 docile and obedient
  3. 3 thoroughly compliant

Examples

Tā bèi lǎopo guǎn de fúfútiētiē.
His wife has him completely under her thumb.
Zhè wèi xùnshòushī bǎ lǎohǔ tiáojiào de fúfútiētiē.
This animal trainer has the tigers thoroughly trained and obedient.

Tips

memory
服服帖帖 is the AABB-reduplicated form of ('to submit, to obey'). The doubling intensifies it — not just obedient, but thoroughly so. CC-CEDICT records the pinyin with neutral tones on the second syllables (fú fu tiē tiē), but the four-tone reading fúfútiētiē is also widely heard and accepted.

Stroke Order

tiě