"Polite" • Chinese-English Dictionary
| 斯文 | sī wén | refined / educate / cultured / intellectual / polite / gentle |   |
| 和气 | hé qi | friendly / polite / amiable | |
| 客气 | kè qi | polite / courteous / formal / modest | |
| 有礼貌 | yǒu lǐ mào | courteous / polite | |
| 老人家 | lǎo rén jiā | polite term for old woman or man | |
| 大姐 | dà jiě | big sister / elder sister / older sister (also polite term of address for a girl or woman slightly older than the speaker) | |
| 老爷子 | lǎo yé zi | my (you etc) old father / polite appellation for an elderly male | |
| 娘子 | niáng zǐ | (dialect) form of address for one's wife / polite form of address for a woman | |
| 客套 | kè tào | polite greeting / civilities / to exchange pleasantries | |
| 欠身 | qiàn shēn | to half rise out of one's chair (a polite gesture) | |
| 礼遇 | lǐ yù | courtesy / deferential treatment / polite reception | |
| 套数 | tào shù | song cycle in Chinese opera / (fig.) a series of tricks / polite remarks / number of (things that are counted in 套[tao4], like houses) | |
| 谦恭 | qiān gōng | polite and modest | |
| 费神 | fèi shén | to spend effort / to take trouble / May I trouble you to...? (as part of polite request) / Please would you mind...? | |
| 洗耳恭听 | xǐ ěr gōng tīng | to listen with respectful attention / (a polite request to sb to speak) / we are all ears | |
| 此致 | cǐ zhì | (used at the end of a letter to introduce a polite salutation) | |
| 多礼 | duō lǐ | too polite / overcourteous | |
| 客套话 | kè tào huà | conventional greeting / polite formula | |
| 套话 | tào huà | polite phrase / conventional greetings / cliché / to try to worm facts out of sb | |
| 阿公 | ā gōng | (old) grandfather / polite address for an elderly man, or a woman's father-in-law / (Taiwanese) grandfather | |
| 辞令 | cí lìng | polite speech / diplomatic terms / rhetoric | |
| 丈 |  zhàng | measure of length, ten Chinese feet (3.3 m) / to measure / husband / polite appellation for an older male | |
| 和和气气 | hé hé qì qì | polite and amiable | |
| 唱喏 | chàng rě | (old) to bow and utter polite phrases / to open the way (for a dignitary etc) | |
| 奉申贺敬 | fèng shēn hè jìng | polite congratulations (i.e. on a greeting card) | |
| 套语 | tào yǔ | polite set phrases | |
| 探口气 | tàn kǒu qì | to sound out opinions / to get sb's views by polite or indirect questioning / also written 探口風|探口风[tan4 kou3 feng1] | |
| 探口风 | tàn kǒu fēng | to sound out opinions / to get sb's views by polite or indirect questioning | |
| 㧑挹 | huī yì | to be extremely modest and polite | |
| 敬词 | jìng cí | term of esteem / honorific (in Chinese grammar) / polite form of pronoun (in European grammar) | |
| 寒喧语 | hán xuān yǔ | polite set phrase / salutation / pleasantries | |
