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鞠躬

jū gōng

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word

鞠躬 (jū gōng) means "to bow; (literary) to bend down". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 鞠躬 means

1. to bow
2. literaryto bend down

The characters in 鞠躬

• 鞠jūto incline (one's torso); to bow; leather ball used in ancient times…
• 躬gōng(literary) body (of a human, esp. the torso); (bound form) to bow; (literary) oneself…

Example sentences

• 鞠躬！
  Jūgōng!
  Bow down!
• 他向女王鞠躬。
  Tā xiàng nǚwáng jūgōng.
  He bowed to the Queen.
• 没有人向他恭敬地鞠躬。
  No one respectfully bowed towards him.
• 在日本，遇到人鞠躬是有礼貌的表现。
  Zài Rìběn, yùdào rén jūgōng shì yǒulǐmào de biǎoxiàn.
  In Japan, it is polite to bow when one meets someone.

Words starting with 鞠躬

• 鞠躬尽瘁jū gōng jìn cuìto bend to a task and spare no effort (idiom); striving to the utmost
• 鞠躬尽瘁，死而后已jū gōng jìn cuì , sǐ ér hòu yǐto bend to a task and spare no effort unto one's dying day (idiom)…

Sounds the same

Read jū gōng, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 居功to claim credit for oneself

Where 鞠躬 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · jiù–jū (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 jū gōng correctly.
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