五体投地 — Chinese idiom
五体投地
wǔ tǐ tóu dì
Traditional: 五體投地
Meaning
- to prostrate oneself in admiration ; to adulate sb
Character by character
- 五wǔfive; surname
- 体tǐbody; group, class; form, style, system
- 投tóuto pitch, to throw; to bid, to invest
- 地dìearth, ground, soil; land, region; structural part
Idioms sharing a character
- 一五一十 yī wǔ yī shí
- 三五成群 sān wǔ chéng qún
- 三令五申 sān lìng wǔ shēn
- 三番五次 sān fān wǔ cì
- 三纲五常 sān gāng wǔ cháng
- 五光十色 wǔ guāng shí sè
- 五味俱全 wǔ wèi jù quán
- 五味杂陈 wǔ wèi zá chén
- 五彩缤纷 wǔ cǎi bīn fēn
- 五色缤纷 wǔ sè bīn fēn
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