誠惶誠恐 Save Sign in to save words Simplified: 诚惶诚恐 chénghuángchéngkǒng ㄔㄥˊ ㄏㄨㄤˊ ㄔㄥˊ ㄎㄨㄥˇ in fear and trepidation (idiom) in reverence before your majesty (court formula of humility) Character by character 誠(chéng)sincere 惶(huáng)fear 誠(chéng)sincere 恐(kǒng)afraid A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0