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HSK
to pay a formal visit / to call to pay respects / to meet one's senior or superior
HSK 7-9
to attend a religious service / (coll.) week / (coll.) Sunday
HSK 5
to pay a visit; to call on
HSK 5
Monday
to worship / adoration
HSK 6
to pay respects during a festival
to pay a New Year call / to wish sb a Happy New Year
HSK 7-9
to worship; to pray (esp. in a regular religious gathering at a church or mosque)
(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
to request sb to do sth / please!
HSK 7-9
money worship
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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
Dubai (Tw)
to worship money / to be mad about money
to offer sacrifice (to one's ancestors)
to formally call on / to worship (a God) / to pay homage to sb
Thursday
sworn brotherhood / intimate friendship
George Byron (1788-1824), English poet
to kneel and bow with joined hands at forehead level / to worship
to bow to one another / to kneel and kowtow to one another / formal kowtow as part of traditional wedding ceremony
to bow in salute; to kowtow
fetishism
Biden (name) / Joe Biden (1942-), US president (2021-), vice-president 2009-2017
(derog.) this is all thanks to you!; well, thanks a lot!
to worship
(often used in the context of diplomacy) to meet with; to pay a visit to; to call on
HSK 7-9
Tuesday
to line up to pay homage
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
Friday
to become sworn brothers or sisters / sworn (brothers)
Beware of suspicious folk bearing gifts, they are sure to be ill-intentioned. (idiom)
to bow again / to bow twice (gesture of respect in former times) / (in letters, an expression of respect)
to prostrate oneself / to fall on one's knees / to grovel
worshipper
to prostrate oneself in worship (idiom) / (fig.) to worship / to bow down to
to formally become an apprentice to a master
Wednesday
chapel / church (Protestant)
to acknowledge as one's teacher
to worship Buddha
see 祆教
Sunday
Bay nahiyisi (Baicheng county) in Aksu 阿克蘇地區|阿克苏地区, west Xinjiang
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
to step down gracefully (humble expression) / to concede defeat / to play second fiddle
to canvass for votes (Tw)
to worship / to gaze with reverence
a pilgrimage to a holy mountain
to bow down low / to make obeisance / to kneel and bow
personality cult
worship service
Azerbaijan
to pay a return visit
liturgical
Saturday
to call to pay one's respect / to call on
(Tw) Azerbaijan
Baikonur Cosmodrome
Dubai
to become sworn brothers
Baiquan, a county in Qiqihar City 齊齊哈爾市|齐齐哈尔市, Heilongjiang
materialistic woman / (slang) gold-digger
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)
(formal) to take leave of sb; to bid farewell
to formally accept sb as (one's adoptive mother, one's master etc)
Sunday
(polite) to read (sth)
Ubaydi (town in Iraq)
ritual kneeling to heaven and earth by bride and groom in a old-fashioned wedding ceremony / same as 拜天地
Baikonur (Russian space launch site in Kazakhstan)
to burn incense and worship Buddha
to prostrate oneself / to kneel and bow the head (in submission, supplication, worship etc)
(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
congratulate an elderly person on his birthday / offer birthday felicitations
day off (work)
to pay a formal visit / to call to pay respects / to pay homage (at a monument, mausoleum etc)
to worship the devil


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