See also: 敬贤礼士

Chinese

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to respect people of talent and ability gift; propriety; rite scholar; warrior; knight
trad. (敬賢禮士) 敬賢
simp. (敬贤礼士) 敬贤

Etymology

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From 虞溥 (Yu Pu)'s《江表傳Accounts from the Area South of the Yangtze River, quoted in Pei Songzhi's Annotations to Records of the Three Kingdoms:

Pronunciation

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Idiom

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敬賢禮士

  1. to respect people of talent and ability (said of a superior)

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