交拜
jiāo bài
Pinyin
Definition
交拜
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- to bow to one another
- to kneel and kowtow to one another
- formal kowtow as part of traditional wedding ceremony
Character Decomposition
Related Words (20)
- 1 to hand over
- 2 to deliver
- 3 to pay (money)
- 4 to turn over
- 5 to make friends
- 6 to intersect (lines)
- 7 variant: 跤 jiāo
- 1 to worship
- 2 adoration
- 1 to pay respect
- 2 worship
- 3 visit
- 4 salute
- 1 to pay a New Year call
- 2 to wish sb a Happy New Year
- 1 to hand over
- 2 to explain
- 3 to make clear
- 4 to brief (sb)
- 5 to account for
- 6 to justify oneself
- 7 to confess
- 8 (coll.) to finish
Idioms (20)
一手交钱,一手交货
- 1 lit. one hand exchanges the cash, the other the goods (idiom)
- 2 fig. to pay for what you want in cash
- 3 simple and direct transaction
交口称誉
- 1 voices unanimous in praise (idiom); with an extensive public reputation
交浅言深
- 1 to talk intimately while being comparative strangers (idiom)
君子之交
- 1 friendship between gentlemen, insipid as water (idiom, from Zhuangzi 莊子|庄子[Zhuāng zǐ])
君子之交淡如水
- 1 a gentleman's friendship, insipid as water (idiom, from Zhuangzi 莊子|庄子[Zhuāng zǐ])