Chinese Character Wiki
拜

bài

pay respects

Original meaning: 

pull out

Depicts a hand (手) pulling a plant (𠦪) out of the ground. Based on the original meaning "pull out", now written as 拔. The current meaning is a phonetic loan.

Components
手 iconic component

手  Iconic component

shǒu

  

hand

𠦪 iconic component

𠦪  Iconic component

tāo

  

decorative plant

Simplified from the ancient character 𢳎.

Evolution

拜 Bronze script Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)

Bronze script

Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
拜 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
拜 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
拜 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

拜  

bài

do obeisance, bow, kowtow; to pay respect; worship; visit; salute

Most common words with 拜
Freq.
Word
Meaning

拜托

please!

拜

worship

崇拜

to worship

礼拜

week

拜访

to pay a visit

Component uses

Sound component in 1 character (0 verified)

湃

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*C.pˤro[t]-s

peajH

bài

bow, bend (v.)


Statistics

HSK level 5

Appears in 71.0556% of movies

469th most common character in movies

1218th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

9

Unicode

U+62DC

Shuowen

“，首至地也。从手、。，音忽。拜，揚雄說，拜从兩手下。，古文拜。”


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