HSK 6 · Verbs

跪 guì “to kneel” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 跪 means

  1. to kneel

How to say 跪

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale跪guì4th tone, falling

跪 in a sentence

  1. 突然，他拿出了一个戒指，跪在地上，向我求婚。

    Tūrán, tā náchū le yí ge jièzhi, guì zài dìshang, xiàng wǒ qiúhūn.

    Suddenly he took out a ring, knelt down and asked me to marry him.

    Sentence #3060473 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 玛丽跪了下来。

    Mǎlì guì le xiàlai.

    Mary knelt down.

    Sentence #10484398 from Tatoeba

How 跪 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 跪 (guì) with each of its parts in a different colour
跪guìto kneel
  • 足foot · zúMeaning part
  • 危dangerous · wēiSound part

足 hints at the meaning (foot); 危 (wēi) hints at the sound. Compare it with guì.

How to write 跪

跪 13 strokes

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跪 (guì) stroke order chart: each stroke of the character in the order you write it
Stroke order chart for 跪 (guì). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 跪

More words: Common Verbs

攻击gōngjī · to attack攻克gōngkè · to capture贯彻guànchè · to implement关照guānzhào · to look after归还guīhuán · to return (something)过滤guòlǜ · to filter捍卫hànwèi · to defend合并hébìng · to merge

FAQs

跪 (guì) means “to kneel”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it guì: guì with a 4th tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 跪 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type gui with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 跪 from the suggestions. Typing gui into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
跪 is an HSK 6 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.