reserve, holding back

Kanji in this word

• 遠 far
• 慮 prudence, thought

Example sentences

• 果物くだものをご遠慮えんりょなく。

  Kudamono o go enryo naku.

  Please help yourself to some fruit.

• そんな遠慮えんりょしないで。

  Sonna enryo shinaide.

  Don't be so reserved.

Example sentences from the Tatoeba Project, CC-BY 2.0 FR.

Related words · share a kanji

• 遠い far
• 遠く far away, distance
• 疎遠 estrangement, distant
• 遠ざかる to move away, to recede
• 配慮 consideration, care