祭拜
jì bài
Pinyin
Definition
祭拜
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- to offer sacrifice (to one's ancestors)
Character Decomposition
Related Words (20)
- 1 to worship
- 2 adoration
- 1 to pay a New Year call
- 2 to wish sb a Happy New Year
- 1 to pay respect
- 2 worship
- 3 visit
- 4 salute
- 1 (loanword) bye-bye
- 2 also pr. [bāi bāi] etc
- 3 (coll.) to part ways (with sb)
- 4 (fig.) to have nothing further to do (with sb or sth)
- 1 to request sb to do sth
- 2 please!
Idioms (2)
顶礼膜拜
- 1 to prostrate oneself in worship (idiom)
- 2 (fig.) to worship
- 3 to bow down to
黄鼠狼给鸡拜年
- 1 Beware of suspicious folk bearing gifts, they are sure to be ill-intentioned. (idiom)
Sample Sentences
祭祖?就是祭拜祖先的意思吧,怎么祭祖呢?
Worship the ancestors? You mean they offer sacrifices to the ancestors? Why do they do that?
我自己觉得挺不一样的就是大年初一那一天,早上要起早去祭拜已逝的人,已逝的亲人。
One that I think is really different, on the first day of the lunar new year you need to get up early and worship the deceased, your deceased relatives.
自己的亲人有什么好怕的。放在家里想什么时候祭拜就什么时候祭拜,省得清明节跟别人一起往公墓挤。
What's so scary about your own loved ones? If you keep it home you can honor them whenever you feel like it. It also saves you the trouble of having to go to a public cemetery with other people.