跪 — Chinese character
跪
guì
to kneel
- Pinyin
- guì
- Radical
- 157 ⾜ (Foot)
- Strokes
- 13
- Components
- 足 危
- Formation
- pictophonetic — foot; meaning component 足; sound component 危
- Japanese
- 跪 as a kanji
Common words with 跪
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 跪下 | guì xia | to kneel down |
| 下跪 | xià guì | to kneel; to go down on one's knees |
| 跪拜 | guì bài | to kowtow; to kneel and worship |
| 跪倒 | guì dǎo | to kneel down; to sink to one's knees |
| 跪坐 | guì zuò | to sit kneeling with legs folded underneath the thighs and buttocks resting on the heels |
| 三跪九叩 | sān guì jiǔ kòu | to kneel three times and kowtow nine times (formal etiquette on meeting the emperor) |
| 长跪 (長跪) | cháng guì | to kneel as in prayer (without sitting back on the heels) |
| 跪地求饶 (跪地求饒) | guì dì qiú ráo | to kneel and beg forgiveness |
| 跪伏 | guì fú | to crouch (of animal) |
| 罚跪 (罰跪) | fá guì | to punish by protracted kneeling |
| 跪叩 | guì kòu | to kowtow |
| 滑跪 | huá guì | (of a soccer player) to knee slide after scoring a goal; (slang) to drop to one's knees in contrition or surrender (usu. figurative) |
English words written with 跪
跪 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Zhuangzi 1
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.