xùn​yán

humble speech

  • created sense approved 巽言 · xùn​yán · humble speech — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    巽言

    xùn​yán

    humble speech

    (literary) polite and respectful language; humble and mild words

    巽 (literal) → 巽 · xùn · to obey 言 (literal) → 言 · yán · speech

    Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition

    created sense