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title
term of respect
This paper analyses from some examples the gains and losses of Chinese honorifics and terms of humility in pragmatic translation.
Modest and honorific is a typical social deixis, which includes modest title, honorific title.

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Open the tool →敬称 (jìng chēng) means “honorific, title, term of respect”.
敬称 is pronounced jìng chēng in Mandarin Chinese.
“honorific” is 敬称 (jìng chēng) in Chinese.
This page has 2 example sentences using 敬称, each with pinyin and an English translation.