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崇拜

chóng bài

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 6 2-character word

崇拜 (chóng bài) means "to worship, idolize". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 崇拜 means

1. to worship
2. adoration

The characters in 崇拜

• 崇chónghigh; sublime; lofty
• 拜bàito bow to; to pay one's respects; (bound form) to extend greetings…

Example sentences

• 安妮有许多崇拜者。
  ānnī yǒu xǔduō chóngbàizhě.
  Anne has many admirers.
• 学生们崇拜新的英语老师。
  Xuésheng men chóngbài xīn de Yīngyǔ lǎoshī.
  The students adore the new English teacher.
• 无知是恐惧之母，也是崇拜之母。
  Wúzhī shì kǒngjù zhī mǔ, yě shì chóngbài zhī mǔ.
  Ignorance is the mother of fear as well as of admiration.
• 从根本上说，十二生肖的形成，与动物崇拜有关。
  On a fundamental level, the 12 forms of the Chinese zodiac are related to animal worship.
• 毫无疑问，人们最初崇拜的都是那些最常见、与人们生活关系最紧密的动物，例如马、牛、羊、鸡、犬等等。
  Háowúyíwèn, rénmen zuì chū chóngbài de dōu shì nàxiē zuì chángjiàn, yǔ rénmen shēnghuó guānxi zuì jǐnmì de dòngwù, lìrú mǎ, niú, yáng, jī, quǎn děngděng.
  Without doubt, what people worship first is what they see most often; for example, the animals that had the closest connection to people's lives, like the horse, the cow, the sheep, the rooster, the dog and so on.
• 孩子啊，不要试图窥探命运，它会导致崇拜与依赖；也不要占星问卜，不要四处施展那驱邪的法术；更不要去了解那种事，这一切都会引起人们狂热的依赖。
  My child, be not an observer of omens, since it leadeth to idolatry, nor a user of spells, nor an astrologer, nor a travelling purifier, nor wish to see these things, for from all these things idolatry ariseth.

Words starting with 崇拜

• 崇拜者chóng bài zhěworshipper

Words containing 崇拜

• 个人崇拜gè rén chóng bàipersonality cult

Where 崇拜 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · chì–chōu (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

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• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read chóng bài correctly.
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