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三sān跪guì九jiǔ叩kòu

  1. to kneel three times and kowtow nine times (formal etiquette on meeting the emperor)

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Japanese data from JMdict, JMnedict, KANJIDIC2, and RADKFILE/KRADFILE (EDRDG). Chinese from CC-CEDICT. French and English from English Wiktionary via Wiktextract. Example sentences from Tatoeba. Stroke diagrams from KanjiVG. JLPT levels follow Jonathan Waller's lists. Full credits on the data and licences page.

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三
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

surname San

Pinyin
Sān
Strokes
3
Frequency
849 of 2500
Words starting with 三Words ending in 三Anywhere in a word
跪
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

to kneel

Pinyin
guì
Strokes
13
Frequency
6887 of 2500
Words starting with 跪Words ending in 跪Anywhere in a word
九
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

nine, 9

Pinyin
jiǔ
Strokes
2
Frequency
4088 of 2500
Words starting with 九Words ending in 九Anywhere in a word
叩
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

to knock, to kowtow

Pinyin
kòu
Strokes
5
Frequency
41125 of 2500
Words starting with 叩Words ending in 叩Anywhere in a word