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to attend a religious service / (coll.) week / (coll.) Sunday
HSK 5
to pay a visit; to call on
HSK 5
to worship / adoration
HSK 6
to request sb to do sth / please!
HSK 7-9
Saturday
to pay a New Year call / to wish sb a Happy New Year
HSK 7-9
Monday
(loanword) bye-bye / also pr. [bai1 bai1] etc / (coll.) to part ways (with sb) / (fig.) to have nothing further to do (with sb or sth)
to pay one's respects by bowing with hands in front of one's chest clasping joss sticks, or with palms pressed together / (Tw) religious ceremony in which offerings are made to a deity
a pilgrimage to a holy mountain
(formal) to take leave of sb; to bid farewell
(often used in the context of diplomacy) to meet with; to pay a visit to; to call on
HSK 7-9
to formally call on / to worship (a God) / to pay homage to sb
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  *拜* | 拜* | *拜
to bow to; to pay one's respects / (bound form) to extend greetings (on a specific occasion) / to make a courtesy call / (bound form) (of a monarch) to appoint sb to (a position) by performing a ceremony / to acknowledge sb as one's (master, godfather etc) / (used before some verbs to indicate politeness)
to kowtow / to kneel and worship
to burn incense and worship Buddha
Thursday
Dubai (Tw)
to worship money / to be mad about money
to offer sacrifice (to one's ancestors)
sworn brotherhood / intimate friendship
to pay a formal visit / to call to pay respects / to meet one's senior or superior
HSK 7-9
liturgical
to kneel and bow with joined hands at forehead level / to worship
to worship; to pray (esp. in a regular religious gathering at a church or mosque)
to pay a formal visit / to call to pay respects / to pay homage (at a monument, mausoleum etc)
to bow to one another / to kneel and kowtow to one another / formal kowtow as part of traditional wedding ceremony
(polite) to read (sth)
to bow in salute; to kowtow
fetishism
Biden (name) / Joe Biden (1942-), US president (2021-), vice-president 2009-2017
to worship
Sunday
Sunday
(Tw) Azerbaijan
Baikonur (Russian space launch site in Kazakhstan)
to formally accept sb as (one's adoptive mother, one's master etc)
Friday
personality cult
Byzantium / Byzantine or Eastern Roman empire (395-1453)
Bay nahiyisi (Baicheng county) in Aksu 阿克蘇地區|阿克苏地区, west Xinjiang
to bow again / to bow twice (gesture of respect in former times) / (in letters, an expression of respect)
money worship
to prostrate oneself / to fall on one's knees / to grovel
worshipper
to pay respects during a festival
to step down gracefully (humble expression) / to concede defeat / to play second fiddle
chapel / church (Protestant)
to prostrate oneself / to kneel and bow the head (in submission, supplication, worship etc)
to worship Buddha
see 祆教
Beware of suspicious folk bearing gifts, they are sure to be ill-intentioned. (idiom)
Wednesday
to formally become an apprentice to a master
to canvass for votes (Tw)
to worship / to gaze with reverence
to bow down low / to make obeisance / to kneel and bow
worship service
Azerbaijan
to pay a return visit
to hold a daytime Buddhist mass; (of a monk or nun) to read scripture to atone for sb's sins
Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880), French realist novelist, author of Madame Bovary
(derog.) this is all thanks to you!; well, thanks a lot!
to call to pay one's respect / to call on
Baiquan, a county in Qiqihar City 齊齊哈爾市|齐齐哈尔市, Heilongjiang
Dubai
congratulate an elderly person on his birthday / offer birthday felicitations
to become sworn brothers
materialistic woman / (slang) gold-digger
Tuesday
to prostrate oneself in worship (idiom) / (fig.) to worship / to bow down to
to worship / to make customary deferences to / a pilgrimage
to return a visit
to worship / to observe religious rites / to pay one's respects (to one's ancestors etc)
to acknowledge as one's teacher
to become sworn brothers or sisters / sworn (brothers)
day off (work)
Bay nahiyisi (Baicheng county) in Aksu 阿克蘇地區|阿克苏地区, west Xinjiang
ritual kneeling to heaven and earth by bride and groom in a old-fashioned wedding ceremony / same as 拜天地
to line up to pay homage
George Byron (1788-1824), English poet
(loanword) combine (i.e. combine harvester)
to worship heaven and earth / ritual kneeling by bride and groom in a old-fashioned wedding ceremony / also called 拜堂
Ubaydi (town in Iraq)
Baikonur Cosmodrome
to worship the devil


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