xī tǎn

膝袒 (xī tǎn) is a Chinese word meaning “to walk on one's knees and bare one's breast (a gesture of deepest apology)”.

Meanings

  1. 1to walk on one's knees and bare one's breast (a gesture of deepest apology)

Characters in 膝袒

膝xī · knee袒tǎn · to bare

Related words

膝盖knee膝knee膝old variant of 膝[xi1]袒护to shield (a miscreant) from punishment, criticism etc偏袒to bare one shoulder膝盖骨kneecap膝下at the knee (in reference to children)护膝kneepad袒to bare袒old variant of 袒[tan3]促膝谈心(idiom) to sit side-by-side and have a heart-to-heart talk袒露to expose

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