不即不離 Save Sign in to save words Simplified: 不即不离 bùjíbùlí ㄅㄨˋ ㄐㄧˊ ㄅㄨˋ ㄌㄧˊ to be neither too familiar nor too distant to keep sb at arm's length Character by character 不(bù)no 即(jí)namely 不(bù)no 離(lí)surname Li A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0