The weakness of eight characters is a wrong concept, which is misunderstood as obeying the weak five elements in eight characters. The eight characters are like a Japanese boy's army sweeping through your village. You are a plowman without guns and cannons. Japanese boys are very strong. You surrendered, and you were also involved in what the Japanese boys robbed in the village. If you are weak, it will be misunderstood that you are not surrendering to the Japanese, but to the disabled people in the village who are poorer and weaker than you. In fact, it is meaningless.
Eight-character subordination and eight-character weakness are two different things. Dependence is caused by the weak yen. Judging from the eight-character case, it is certain that the yen is weak, and the weak yen is not necessarily subordinate. Only when there is no way out will there be subordination.