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to esteem / to respect / to honor / to value / eminent / serious / proper
HSK 5
to respect; to revere; to esteem / honorable; distinguished (used on formal occasions before a term of address)
HSK 5
dignity / sanctity / honor / majesty
HSK 7-9
self-respect / self-esteem / ego
HSK 7-9
self-respect / self-esteem / ego / pride
HSK 7-9
respected / respectable / honorable
HSK 7-9
to value highly / to hold up sth as a model
(neologism) (slang) to salvage a bit of dignity (abbr. for 挽回尊嚴|挽回尊严)
Your esteemed father (honorific)
the most honorable / the most respected / supreme / (archaic) the emperor
to address sb deferentially / title / honorific
(honorific) your parent
(idiom) do as you see fit / do whatever you like / (I, we) leave it in your hands
respect the aged
honorific title / form of address reserved for a queen, ancestor, emperor etc
(idiom) to rely on a single authority to determine what is correct / to regard a source (or entity or individual) as the ultimate authority
lit. your honored carriage / your highness / honored Sir (also sarcastic) / you
(Buddhism) yidam (one's chosen meditational deity) / the principal object of worship on a Buddhist altar / (of a monk who has the ability to appear in multiple places at the same time) the honored one himself (contrasted with his alternate forms, 分身) / (fig.) (jocular) the genuine article / the real McCoy / the man himself / the woman herself / the original manifestation of sth (not a spin-off or a clone)
honor and glory
(honorific) your father
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *尊* | 尊* | *尊
senior / of a senior generation / to honor / to respect / honorific / classifier for cannons and statues / ancient wine vessel
(honorific appellation of a deity)
teacher / master
honored sir (a person of higher status or seniority, or a Buddhist monk)
your order (honorific)
respect the old and cherish the young
(idiom) to show deference to sb of lower status; to condescend; to deign
to respect the wise and venerate the worthy (idiom); to honor the great and the good
(honorific) your respected opinion / What do you think, your majesty?
well-off and respected (idiom) / to be content with one's wealth and position
worship / to revere / to venerate
to revere / to admire / to honor / to venerate
august countenance / your face (usually mocking)
(honorific) your father
to esteem / to revere / to think highly of sb
revered master
(honorific) your mother
World Honored One / Revered One of the World (Buddha)
one's superior / one's elders and betters
keep your thoughts to yourself
to regard men as superior to women (idiom)
(honorific) your father
superior and subordinate / social ranking
aged and respected; senior
to condescend / to deign
to respect talent and make use of ability (Mencius)
ridiculous self-importance (idiom); arrogance
title of a Daoist priest / revered master
to recognize talent and have great respect for it
(idiom) the dignity of authority is above life; one must be willing to sacrifice one's life rather than disobey a military order
to revere as sole orthodoxy / to hold supremacy (of a religion, ideology, cultural norm, social group etc) / to be dominant
to care nothing for worldly fame and glory (idiom)
another name for Sakyamuni 釋迦牟尼佛|释迦牟尼佛, the historical Buddha
Wu Zun or Chun Wu (1979-), Bruneian actor, vocalist of Fei Lun Hai (Fahrenheit)
dismiss the hundred schools, revere only the Confucians (slogan of the Former Han dynasty)
trout
Dismiss the hundred schools, revere only the Confucian (idiom) / sole dominant ideology
posthumous honorific name
(honorific) your parents
respectable
to revere the master and his teaching
to obey / to observe / to follow
(law) elder relatives; relatives of a senior generation such as parents, uncles or grandparents
to honor the wise and love the people / respecting noble talent while protecting the common people
to condescend / condescending / patronizing
to live like a prince (idiom)


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