KOWTOW  扣頭

BOW DOWN and KNOCK one's HEAD against the FLOOR IN FRONT of someone so as to SHOW RESPECT.
Hypernym
  • BOW DOWNGREET so as to BEND one's BODY DOWN as a POLITE GESTURE.
    • GREETADDRESS someone one is MEETING NOW COMMUNICATING one's GOOD WISHES FOR her/him.
      • ADDRESSSPEAK OR WRITE INTENDING ANOTHER TO HEAR OR READ AND TO REACT to IT. 
        • SPEAKACT so as to USE WORDS FOR SHOWING MEANING.*Speech by speaker X, directed towards audience Y, in order to communicate message Z....
See also
  • KNEELBOW DOWN AND SUPPORT ONESELF on the FLOOR USING one's KNEES.
    Old Chinese Criteria
    Not yet done. See MODERN CHINESE

    Modern Chinese Criteria
    磕頭 / 叩頭 is the current modern word for kowtowing.

    頓首 (lit) is a literary word current in epistolary style.

    叩首 (lit) is an elevated way of saying the same thing.

    跪拜 is an analytic dramatising way of referring to kowtowing, specifying the kneeling and bowing.

    叩拜 focusses on the knocking and the bowing.

    下拜 focusses on the low bowing.

    展拜 focusses on the spreading of the hands as one knocks the floor with one's forehead.

    泥首 "dirty one's head" dramatises the dirtying of one's forehead as one hits the ground with one's forehead.

    稽首 is a current traditionalist way of referring to kowtowing.

    稽顙 (lit, obs) is an elevated term for kowtowing.

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    rough draft to BEGIN TO identify synonym group members for analysis, based on CL etc. 18.11.2003. CH ／

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