叩頭 Save Sign in to save words Simplified: 叩头 kòutóu ㄎㄡˋ ㄊㄡˊ to kowtow (traditional greeting, esp. to a superior, involving kneeling and pressing one's forehead to the ground) Character by character 叩(kòu)knock 頭(tóu)head A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0