please refrain from
Polite request not to do something. Often seen on signs or in announcements. The verb following ご遠慮ください is typically in the て form or a noun + を.
Please refrain from smoking inside the building.
Please refrain from taking photographs.
遠慮する is the plain verb meaning 'to refrain/hold back', while ご遠慮ください is the polite imperative form used in signs and announcements asking others to refrain.
Standard polite written form using ください in kana.
Variant using the kanji 下さい for ください; slightly more formal or traditional.
Uses the honorific prefix 御 instead of ご; very formal and less common.
Combines 御 and 下さい; extremely formal and rare.
Polite phrase combining the honorific prefix ご, the noun 遠慮 (restraint, refraining), and the imperative form of くださる (to give, honorific). Literally 'please give restraint'.