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Trad. 手賤
- (coll.) prone to touch things one should keep one's hands off of
Trad. 賤民
- social stratum below the level of ordinary people
- untouchable
- dalit (India caste)
Trad. 貴賤
- noble and lowly
- high versus low social hierarchy of ruler to people, father to son, husband to wife in Confucianism
Trad. 親疏貴賤
- close and distant, rich and poor (idiom); everyone
- all possible relations
Trad. 貴古賤今
- to revere the past and despise the present (idiom)
Trad. 威尊命賤
- (idiom) the dignity of authority is above life; one must be willing to sacrifice one's life rather than disobey a military order
Trad. 貴遠賤近
- to revere the past and despise the present (idiom)
Trad. 自輕自賤
- to belittle oneself
- self-contempt
Trad. 貧賤不能移
- not shaken by poverty
- to preserve one's ambitions although destitute
