HSK7

bow down

frequency
variants ,
to look down verb
To look down or face downward (as opposed to looking up)
to bow verb
To bow one's head or bend the body forward and down

He bent to kiss me, but I turned my face determinedly away.

[honorific]
A polite term used in formal letters or official documents when requesting that the recipient grant a favor or take notice of something

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Antonym

Same as

Frequency

Character
Written text
2,261st most common 26.4 per million
Movie subtitles
2,648th most common 6.49 per million appears in 4% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
0.690 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
2.28 per million

Details

HSK 2.0
Level 6
HSK 3.0
Level 7
Strokes
10
Unicode
U+4FEF

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