畏縮 Save Sign in to save words Simplified: 畏缩 On the HSK 7-9 vocabulary list, at CEFR level C2. wèisuō ㄨㄟˋ ㄙㄨㄛ to cower to flinch to quail to recoil Character by character 畏(wèi)fear 縮(suō)withdraw A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0 国际中文教育中文水平等级标准, 中华人民共和国教育部, MIT