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Chinese dictionary
- 1
v.call on formally; pay a courtesy visit
跪拜
worship on bended knees
叩拜
kowtow
请受我一拜。
Please accept my kowtow.
- 2
v.congratulate; make a ceremonial call
拜寿
present birthday greetings to an elderly person
拜年
pay New Year's call
团拜
mass congratulations
- 3
v.resp(used before a verb to show respect)
拜读
have the honour to read
拜访
visit
拜托
request somebody to do
- 4
v.fmlconfer a high-ranking title on; entitle with ceremony; appoint to prime ministership or other official post
拜相
be made prime minister
拜将
appoint as general
- 5
v.establish/acknowledge certain relationship
结拜
be sworn brothers
拜师
acknowledge as one's teacher
拜把子
become sworn brothers
Words and phrases with 拜
- 拜扫[word]offer sacrifices/hold memorial service at a tomb
- 拜将封侯[word]give somebody a general post and confer a title of nobility upon in ancient times
- 拜火教徒[word]Zoroastrian
- 拜节[word]offer greetings during a festival
- 拜望[word]call to pay one's respects
- 拜别[word]bid farewell to
- 拜年[word]pay a New Year's call
- 拜物教徒[word]fetishist
- 拜佛[word]kneel before the image of the Buddha
- 拜金主义[idiom]money worship