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卑bēi躬gōng屈qū膝xī

  1. to bow and bend the knee (idiom); fawning; bending and scraping to curry favor

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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.

Characters in this word

4
卑
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

low, base, vulgar, inferior, humble

Pinyin
bēi
Strokes
8
Words starting with 卑Words ending in 卑Anywhere in a word
躬
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

(literary) body (of a human, esp. the torso), (bound form) to bow, (literary) oneself; personally

Pinyin
gōng
Strokes
10
Frequency
37339 of 2500
Words starting with 躬Words ending in 躬Anywhere in a word
屈
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

surname Qu

Pinyin
Qū
Strokes
8
Words starting with 屈Words ending in 屈Anywhere in a word
膝
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

old variant of 膝[xi1]

Pinyin
xī
Traditional
厀
Strokes
15
Frequency
23337 of 2500
Words starting with 膝Words ending in 膝Anywhere in a word