"Polite" • Chinese-English Dictionary

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 sī wén refined / educate / cultured / intellectual / polite / gentle
 hé qi friendly / polite / amiable
 kè qi polite / courteous / formal / modest
 yǒu lǐ mào courteous / polite
 lǎo rén jiā polite term for old woman or man
 dà jiě big sister / elder sister / older sister (also polite term of address for a girl or woman slightly older than the speaker)
 lǎo yé zi my (you etc) old father / polite appellation for an elderly male
 niáng zǐ (dialect) form of address for one's wife / polite form of address for a woman
 kè tào polite greeting / civilities / to exchange pleasantries
 qiàn shēn to half rise out of one's chair (a polite gesture)
 lǐ yù courtesy / deferential treatment / polite reception
 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)
 qiān gōng polite and modest
 fèi shén to spend effort / to take trouble / May I trouble you to...? (as part of polite request) / Please would you mind...?
 xǐ ěr gōng tīng to listen with respectful attention / (a polite request to sb to speak) / we are all ears
 cǐ zhì (used at the end of a letter to introduce a polite salutation)
 duō lǐ too polite / overcourteous
 kè tào huà conventional greeting / polite formula
 tào huà polite phrase / conventional greetings / cliché / to try to worm facts out of sb
 ā gōng (old) grandfather / polite address for an elderly man, or a woman's father-in-law / (Taiwanese) grandfather
 cí lìng polite speech / diplomatic terms / rhetoric
 zhàng measure of length, ten Chinese feet (3.3 m) / to measure / husband / polite appellation for an older male
 hé hé qì qì polite and amiable
 chàng rě (old) to bow and utter polite phrases / to open the way (for a dignitary etc)
 fèng shēn hè jìng polite congratulations (i.e. on a greeting card)
 tào yǔ polite set phrases
 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]
 tàn kǒu fēng to sound out opinions / to get sb's views by polite or indirect questioning
 huī yì to be extremely modest and polite
 jìng cí term of esteem / honorific (in Chinese grammar) / polite form of pronoun (in European grammar)
 hán xuān yǔ polite set phrase / salutation / pleasantries
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