| 斯文 | sī wén | refined / educate / cultured / intellectual / polite / gentle |   |
| 儒雅 | rú yǎ | scholarly / refined / cultured / courteous | |
| 风雅 | fēng yǎ | cultured / sophisticated | |
| 温文尔雅 | wēn wén ěr yǎ | cultured and refined (idiom) / gentle and cultivated | |
| 名师出高徒 | míng shī chū gāo tú | A famous teacher trains a fine student (idiom). A cultured man will have a deep influence on his successors. | |
| 识文断字 | shí wén duàn zì | literate / a cultured person | |
| 诗礼 | Shī Lǐ | the Book of Songs 書經|书经[Shu1 jing1] and Classic of Rites 禮記|礼记[Li3 ji4] / a cultured well-read person | |
| 瘦死的骆驼比马大 | shòu sǐ de luò tuo bǐ mǎ dà | lit. even a scrawny camel is bigger than a horse (idiom) / fig. even after suffering a loss, a rich person is still better off than ordinary people / a cultured person may come down in the world, but he is still superior to the common people | |
