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拜

bài

Old HSK 4 HSK 3.0 character level 6 Character

What 拜 means

1. to bow to; to pay one's respects
2. bound formto extend greetings (on a specific occasion)
3. to make a courtesy call
4. bound form(of a monarch) to appoint sb to (a position) by performing a ceremony
5. to acknowledge sb as one's (master, godfather etc)
6. (used before some verbs to indicate politeness)

Example sentences

• 拜拜！
  Báibái!
  Bye-bye!
• 拜托了！
  Please!
• 拜托……
  Please...
• 喝酒结拜。
  Hējiǔ jiébài.
  To drink together is to become sworn brothers.
• 噢拜托了！
  Oh please!
• 拜托拜托！
  Please!

Words starting with 拜

• 拜访bài fǎngto pay a visit; to call on
• 拜托bài tuōto request sb to do sth; please!
• 拜年bài niánto pay a New Year call; to wish sb a Happy New Year
• 拜拜bái bái(loanword) bye-bye; also pr. bāi bāi etc; (colloquial) to part ways (with sb)
• 拜见bài jiànto pay a formal visit; to call to pay respects; to meet one's senior or superior
• 拜师bài shīto formally become an apprentice to a master
• 拜佛bài Fóto worship Buddha
• 拜读bài dú(polite) to read (sth)
• 拜伦Bài lúnGeorge Byron (1788-1824), English poet
• 拜会bài huì(often used in the context of diplomacy) to meet with; to pay a visit to; to call on
• 拜占庭Bài zhàn tíngByzantium; Byzantine or Eastern Roman empire (395-1453)
• 拜倒bài dǎoto prostrate oneself; to fall on one's knees; to grovel
• 拜谒bài yèto pay a formal visit; to call to pay respects; to pay homage…
• 拜别bài bié(formal) to take leave of sb; to bid farewell
• 拜望bài wàngto call to pay one's respect; to call on
• 拜票bài piàoto canvass for votes (Tw)
• 拜节bài jiéto pay respects during a festival
• 拜认bài rènto formally accept sb as (one's adoptive mother, one's master etc)
• 拜金bài jīnto worship money; to be mad about money
• 拜天地bài tiān dìto worship heaven and earth; ritual kneeling by bride and groom in a old-fashioned…
• 拜把子bài bǎ zito become sworn brothers
• 拜物教bài wù jiàofetishism
• 拜金女bài jīn nǚmaterialistic woman; (slang) gold-digger
• 拜人为师bài rén wéi shīto acknowledge as one's teacher

Words containing 拜

• 礼拜天Lǐ bài tiānSunday
• 崇拜chóng bàito worship; adoration
• 礼拜lǐ bàito attend a religious service; (colloquial) week; (colloquial) Sunday
• 参拜cān bàito formally call on; to worship (a God); to pay homage to sb
• 朝拜cháo bàito worship; to make customary deferences to; a pilgrimage
• 迪拜Dí bàiDubai
• 崇拜者chóng bài zhěworshipper
• 膜拜mó bàito kneel and bow with joined hands at forehead level; to worship
• 跪拜guì bàito kowtow; to kneel and worship
• 祭拜jì bàito offer sacrifice (to one's ancestors)
• 礼拜堂lǐ bài tángchapel; church (Protestant)
• 做礼拜zuò lǐ bàito worship; to pray (esp. in a regular religious gathering at a church or mosque)
• 礼拜六Lǐ bài liùSaturday
• 顶礼膜拜dǐng lǐ mó bàito prostrate oneself in worship (idiom); (fig.) to worship; to bow down to
• 结拜jié bàito become sworn brothers or sisters; sworn (brothers)
• 个人崇拜gè rén chóng bàipersonality cult
• 敬拜jìng bàito worship
• 下拜xià bàito bow down low; to make obeisance; to kneel and bow
• 交拜jiāo bàito bow to one another; to kneel and kowtow to one another…
• 再拜zài bàito bow again; to bow twice (gesture of respect in former times)…
• 回拜huí bàito pay a return visit
• 团拜tuán bàito gather as a group to exchange greetings (typically at New Year)
• 答拜dá bàito return a visit
• 罗拜luó bàito line up to pay homage

Characters that look like 拜

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 挥huīto wave; to brandish; to command
• 祥xiángauspicious; propitious
• 绊bànto trip; to stumble; to hinder
• 怦pēng(onomatopoeia) the thumping of one's heart
• 烊yángmolten; smelt
• 绔kùvariant of 裤

Sounds the same

Read bài, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 败to defeat; to damage; to lose (to an opponent)
• 呗(bound form) to chant (from Sanskrit "pāṭhaka")
• 稗barnyard millet (Echinochloa crus-galli); Panicum crus-galli; (literary) insignificant
• 韛bellows (for blowing air into a fire)

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