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磕头
kē​tóu

kowtow

Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
磕头 (磕頭) kē​tóu
kowtow verb
to kowtow (traditional greeting, esp. to a superior, involving kneeling and pressing one's forehead to the ground)

Frequency

Movie subtitles
0.180 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
1.92 per million

Cross-References

Same as

  • 叩头 kòu​tóu
  • 叩首 kòu​shǒu

Sources

Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
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