三跪九叩 Save Sign in to save words sānguìjiǔkòu ㄙㄢ ㄍㄨㄟˋ ㄐㄧㄡˇ ㄎㄡˋ to kneel three times and kowtow nine times (formal etiquette on meeting the emperor) Character by character 三(sān)surname San 跪(guì)kneel 九(jiǔ)nine 叩(kòu)knock A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0