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charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *顿* | 顿* | *顿
to stop / to pause / to arrange / to lay out / to kowtow / to stamp (one's foot) / at once / classifier for meals, beatings, scoldings etc: time, bout, spell, meal
HSK 3
to kowtow
to kowtow (traditional greeting, esp. to a superior, involving kneeling and pressing one's forehead to the ground) / also written 磕頭|磕头
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *叩* | 叩* | *叩
to knock / to kowtow
to kowtow / to kneel and worship
to bow in salute; to kowtow
to kowtow / also written 磕頭|磕头
kowtow
to kowtow in salute
(old) to stand up (after kowtowing) / You may rise.
to kneel three times and kowtow nine times (formal etiquette on meeting the emperor)
to bump one's head / to kowtow with head-banging on the ground
to bow to one another / to kneel and kowtow to one another / formal kowtow as part of traditional wedding ceremony
lit. to kowtow like grinding garlic (idiom) / fig. to pound the ground with one's head
to kowtow (traditional greeting, esp. to a superior, involving kneeling and pressing one's forehead to the ground)
to kowtow (touch the forehead to the floor)


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