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to bow
to personally undertake or manage
to attend to personally
to carry out a task personally
to bow
to call
the Emperor's body
introspection
to attend to everything personally
to bow respectfully with clasped hands
to bend to a task and spare no effort
to bow and scrape
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No one respectfully bowed towards him.
Source: Tatoeba #461502 · CC BY 2.0 FRIn Japan, it is polite to bow when one meets someone.
Source: Tatoeba #461630 · CC BY 2.0 FRI walked up to her, bowed, and kissed her hand.
Source: Tatoeba #9970069 · CC BY 2.0 FRDefinitions and traditional forms are compiled from Make Me a Hanzi, HSK curriculum data, and CC-CEDICT. Sourced example sentences link to Tatoeba; editorial examples are labeled separately. Review data sources and licenses.