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wedding ceremony / wedding / CL: 場|场
HSK 4
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  *礼* | 礼* | *礼
gift / rite / ceremony / CL: / propriety / etiquette / courtesy
HSK 5
ceremony; celebration
HSK 5
to give a present
HSK 6
to salute / salute
HSK 7-9
baptism (lit. or fig.)
HSK 7-9
burial / funeral
HSK 7-9
refined and courteous / urbane
HSK 7-9
circumcision (male or female)
to salute / to make one's salutations
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  *礼* | 礼* | *礼
surname Li / abbr. for 禮記|礼记, Classic of Rites
to make a pilgrimage (to visit a holy site) / to go on a sightseeing tour
to salute / to greet
impolite / impropriety / to sexually harass
to accept a gift / to receive presents
to offer sth in tribute (often on a special occasion); to dedicate / an offering; a tribute
congratulatory gift
betrothal gift / bride price
betrothal gift
funeral
to return a greeting / to send a gift in return
to attend a ritual
present; gift
sacrificial offerings / worship / religious rite
to offer an apology / to make amends
honorarium / gift as thanks
to act discourteously / forgive me (for my impropriety)
generous gifts
peer competition / to function as rivals / to make claims as an equal
to return a politeness / to present a gift in return
birthday present (for an old person)
my meager gift (humble)
restrain yourself and return to the rites (idiom, from Analects); to subdue self and observe proprieties / (any number of possible translations)
(formal) you may dispense with curtseying
to stand on ceremony / punctilious
to be well-mannered
Holy sacrament / Christian rite (esp. Protestant) / also called 聖事|圣事 by Catholics
betrothal gift / bride-price
to return a courtesy / return gift
the classics a Confucian scholar must read (such as The Book of Songs 詩經|诗经 and The Book of Rites 禮記|礼记)
to accept a gift / to acknowledge greetings
too polite / overcourteous
to behave informally as equals / not to stand on ceremony
betrothal gift / bride price
the capping ceremony, a Confucian coming of age ceremony for males dating from pre-Qin times, performed when a boy reaches the age of 20, involving the ritual placing of caps on the head of the young man
empty formality
Rites and Ceremonies, part of the Confucian Classic of Rites 禮記|礼记
the Rites of Zhou (in Confucianism)
graduation ceremony; commencement exercises
rude / rudely
ordination
to overstep etiquette / not to observe priorities
respectfully yours (at the end of a letter)
vigorously pursuing knowledge, while scrupulously abiding by the rules of decorum (idiom)
confirmation (Christian ceremony)
curtsy
coming of age ceremony
(religion) to sacrifice / sacrifice / animal offered as sacrifice
confirmation
opening ceremony
launching ceremony
gift given when visiting sb (esp. a local specialty brought back from one's travels, or a special product of one's own country taken overseas) (Tw)
(idiom) arrogant; disrespectful
humble expression for generous gift
confirmation (Christian ceremony)
female genital mutilation
inauguration
variant of 居里
ground breaking ceremony
military salute
gift given to sb when meeting them for the first time


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