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Mythic Mandarin

拜 (bài): meaning and stroke order

拜 (bài) means to bow to; to pay one's respects.

拜

Simplified
拜
Traditional
拜 (same form)
Pinyin
bài

Stroke order of 拜

拜

  • bài to bow to; to pay one's respects; (bound form) to extend greetings (on a specific occasion)
  • 9 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 拜

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

Radical and structure

拜
Radical 手 (Kangxi radical 64) · 9 strokes

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

Words with 拜

拜 in our stories

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  • 他离开家，到处拜师学本领，吃了很多苦，却从来没有想过放弃。

    tā líkāi jiā dàochù bài shī xué běnlǐng chī le hěn duō kǔ què cónglái méiyǒu xiǎng guò fàngqì

    He left home and sought teachers everywhere to learn their skills. He went through great hardship but never once thought of giving up.

    From the story Splitting the mountain to save his mother HSK 5

  • 他还告诉她，上个月有个大学生专门来拜他为师，说要把这门手艺拍成视频放到网上。

    tā hái gàosu tā shàng gè yuè yǒu gè dàxuéshēng zhuānmén lái bài tā wéi shī shuō yào bǎ zhè mén shǒuyì pāi chéng shìpín fàng dào wǎngshang

    He also told her that last month a university student had come specially to become his apprentice, saying he would film the craft and put it online.

    From the story Old Du on the corner HSK 6

Stories using 拜

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).