to compliment; to praise

to listen with respectful attention; (a polite request to sb to speak); we are all ears

to look forward to sth; to wait respectfully

respectful

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

deferential; respectful

disrespectful

to defecate (euphemism); to go to the toilet

(literary) excrement; feces

(literary) urine

see 恭城瑤族自治縣|恭城瑶族自治县[Gong1 cheng2 Yao2 zu2 Zi4 zhi4 xian4]

variant of 恭維|恭维[gong1 wei5]

to congratulate respectfully; to wish good luck and success (esp. to a superior); with best wishes (in writing)

(literary) respectful; deferential

to congratulate respectfully; to express good wishes

deferential; respectful

to be constipated (euphemism)

polite and modest

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

Grand Prince (Qing title)

see 恭城瑤族自治縣|恭城瑶族自治县[Gong1 cheng2 Yao2 zu2 Zi4 zhi4 xian4]

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

(idiom) less than impressed; underwhelmed

to switch from arrogance to deference (idiom)

to refuse would be impolite

variant of 畢恭畢敬|毕恭毕敬[bi4 gong1 bi4 jing4]

Happy New Year

reverent and respectful; extremely deferential

temperate, kind, courteous and restrained

to trifle without respect (idiom); to despise worldly conventions; frivolous

temperate, kind, courteous, restrained and magnanimous

deference is no substitute for obedience (idiom); (said to accept sb's request, invitation etc)

Gongcheng Yao Autonomous County, in Guilin City 桂林市[Gui4 lin2 Shi4], Guangxi