ritual kneeling to heaven and earth by bride and groom in a old-fashioned wedding ceremony; same as 拜天地
Characters in this word
2拜
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0
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)
- Pinyin
- bài
- Strokes
- 9
- Frequency
- 1216 of 2500
堂
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(main) hall, large room for a specific purpose, CL:間|间[jian1], relationship between cousins etc on the paternal side of a family, of the same clan, classifier for classes, lectures etc, classifier for sets of furniture
- Pinyin
- táng
- Strokes
- 11
- Frequency
- 15913 of 2500