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| − | <WL>拜 [bài] honor, | + | <WL>拜 [bài] bow/kowtow (deeply); honor/adore/worship, 拜见 pay respects; 拜谢 bow in thanks; (TW) 礼拜 week (礼拜天 Sunday, 礼拜一 Monday) [bái] (Eng.) 拜拜 bye-bye!@@; (HDZ:) … |
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| − | The | + | The Shuōwén Seal form 拜(𢫶) bài ‘bow down (deeply), honor/worship’ combines the old form 𢪒(𠬞廾) gǒng ‘upraised/respectful hands’ (手 doubled), and 下 xià ‘down’; bow down the head in respect/obeisance, lowering the head to the hands, or bowing more deeply, kneel/fall to the ground with head lowered and hands extended in complete submission; formerly wr. 𣬓(), the main SW form 𢷎() has 扌(手) and 𠦪(𦱧) hū ‘urgent/fast’, in which 夲() tāo ‘advance quickly’ is short for 奔(𢍃) bēn ‘run (in fear)’ (phonosemantic). |
| + | Note: There is some question in SW editions about the depth of bow specified by 拜; cf. 肅拜; 拜手; 䭫首, 磕头 ‘kowtow’ (DYC). | ||
| + | The modern form 拜 is a distortion of the old form 𢫶(), moving 下 down to the right and combining it with the right-side 手 to make the shape . | ||
| + | Compare: 手() shǒu ‘hand’, formerly wr. 𡴤(); 又(), 右(𠮢) yòu ‘right hand’; 友(㕛) yǒu ‘good friends’. | ||
| + | Compare: 廾(𠬞𢪒) gǒng ‘upraised (reverent/respectful) hands’; 共(𠔏𦱹) gòng ‘offer (respectfully/respects), shared/together’. | ||
| + | Note: 拜见 ‘pay respects’; 拜读 ‘read with respect’; 拜读大作 ‘Happy to have read your masterpiece!’. | ||
| + | Compare: 臣() chén ‘bowing slave/servant’ (prostrate/kneeling/bowing person). | ||
“To honour, to reverence. Two 手 hands that are 下 held down” —Wieger. | “To honour, to reverence. Two 手 hands that are 下 held down” —Wieger. | ||
| − | + | HDZ: 拜 : bài : (古) 表示敬意的一种礼节, 行礼时两足跪地, 低头, 下与腰平, 两手至地; 拜谢; 尊崇, 敬奉 (); | |
#rG.385.55 W.48d K.GSR328a D.3.1846.7 M.4860 KX..427.02 B.119.1.10 E.1 | #rG.385.55 W.48d K.GSR328a D.3.1846.7 M.4860 KX..427.02 B.119.1.10 E.1 | ||
| − | # | + | #c手王十丰 |
#y baai- | #y baai- | ||
</WL> | </WL> | ||
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