绥靖

綏靖

suíjìng

noun

Meanings

1 appeasement
2 to appease
3 to pacify

Characters

to soothe; to pacify

to pacify; peaceful

Examples

HSK 6

二战前，英法对德国采取了绥靖政策。

Èrzhàn qián, Yīng Fǎ duì Déguó cǎiqǔ le suíjìng zhèngcè.

Before World War II, Britain and France adopted a policy of appeasement toward Germany.

HSK 7-9

对侵略者一味绥靖，只会助长他们的野心。

Duì qīnlüèzhě yíwèi suíjìng, zhǐ huì zhùzhǎng tāmen de yěxīn.

Endlessly appeasing an aggressor only feeds its ambitions.

Tips

history

Mostly met in 绥靖政策, the appeasement of Nazi Germany by Britain and France in the 1930s, which peaked with the Munich Agreement of 1938. Today the word is pejorative. In older texts it simply means to pacify a region.

Stroke Order

绥 suí

靖 jìng