敬而遠之 Save Sign in to save words Simplified: 敬而远之 On the HSK 7-9 vocabulary list, at CEFR level C2. jìngéryuǎnzhī ㄐㄧㄥˋ ㄦˊ ㄩㄢˇ ㄓ 男 女 to show respect from a distance (idiom) to remain at a respectful distance Character by character 敬(jìng)respectful 而(ér)and 遠(yuǎn)far 之(zhī)(possessive particle, literary equivalent of 的 de) A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0 国际中文教育中文水平等级标准, 中华人民共和国教育部, MIT