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On reading compounds

  • 跪座 【キザ】 kneeling with the balls of the feet on the floor and sitting on one's heels
  • 跪拝 【キハイ】 kneeling and worshipping, worshipping on one's knees
  • 拝跪 【ハイキ】 kneeling down (to pray), going down on one's knees
  • 長跪 【チョウキ】 way of sitting by placing both knees on the ground and standing upright

Kun reading compounds

  • 跪く 【ひざまずく】 to kneel (in respect), to genuflect

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
gui4
Korean:
gwe

Spanish

Portuguese

French

4559 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
37516 Morohashi
5874 New Nelson (John Haig)
2745 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2773 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
7d6.8 The Kanji Dictionary
1-7-6 SKIP code
6711.2 Four corner code
1-76-78 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
8dea Unicode hex code

8 strokes
Radical:
hand 手 (扌龵)
Parts:
Variants:
worship, adore, pray to
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 6
JLPT level N2
1443 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 拝 【ハイ】 bowing one's head (in respect or worship), worship, respectfully yours
  • 拝啓 【ハイケイ】 Dear (so and so), Dear Sir, Dear Madam, To Whom It May Concern
  • 礼拝 【レイハイ】 worship (esp. Christian), (church) service
  • 再拝 【サイハイ】 bowing twice, worshipping again, yours sincerely, sincerely yours

Kun reading compounds

  • 拝む 【おがむ】 to assume the posture of praying, to press the palms and fingers of both hands together, to do reverence (e.g. before a statue of the Buddha), to pay one's respects, to beg, to make a supplication, to see (something or someone of high status)

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
bai4
Korean:
bae

Spanish

  • culto
  • adoración
  • adorar
  • implorar
  • suplicar

Portuguese

  • venerar
  • adorar
  • orar para

French

  • culte
  • adorer
  • prier
858 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
966 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
956 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1475 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
1884 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
529 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
566 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
585 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1201 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1264 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
766 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
880 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
360 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
224 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
268 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1578 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
11969P Morohashi
303 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2126 New Nelson (John Haig)
1564 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1686 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
872 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1355 2001 Kanji
3c5.3 The Kanji Dictionary
1-3-5 SKIP code
5105.0 Four corner code
1-39-50 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
62dd Unicode hex code