to express good wishes to someone on a happy occasion or achievement

to praise or speak highly of someone, often to please them or out of politeness

May you have a prosperous New Year! (New Year's greeting)

to listen with respectful attention; used as a polite expression to show one is all ears or to invite someone to speak

showing or feeling deep respect and deference toward someone, especially a superior or elder

to wait for someone in a respectful or formal manner

a formal formulaic closing used in written correspondence to express respect and well-wishing

to congratulate someone respectfully or express formal good wishes on a happy or celebratory occasion

polite and modest

to treat life and social conventions with a mocking, flippant, or disrespectful attitude; to trifle with the world

showing extreme respect and politeness in one's manner or attitude

(literary) respectful; deferential

showing respect and submissive obedience towards a superior or authority figure

General Yuchi Gong (585-658), a famous military figure instrumental in the founding of the Tang dynasty

deference is no substitute for obedience; a polite formula used to accept an invitation or request

Happy New Year; to congratulate on the New Year

temperate, kind, courteous, restrained and magnanimous

it would be impolite to refuse

to go to the toilet or relieve oneself (polite or archaic euphemism)

to switch from arrogance to deference (idiom)

Gongcheng Yao Autonomous County in Guilin, Guangxi

temperate, kind, courteous, and restrained

Chen Gongyin (1631-1700), early Qing dynasty poet

Grand Prince (Qing Dynasty title)

(literary) urine

(literary) excrement; feces

to be constipated (euphemism)

to be underwhelmed or find something disappointing or of poor quality