| 八拜之交 |
bā bài zhī jiāo |
sworn brotherhood / intimate friendship |
| 八 |
bā |
eight |
| 拜 |
bài |
to bow to; to pay one's respects / (bound form) to extend greetings (on a specific occasion) / to make a courtesy call / (bound form) (of a monarch) to appoint sb to (a position) by performing a ceremony / to acknowledge sb as one's (master, godfather etc) / (used before some verbs to indicate politeness) |
| 之 |
zhī |
(possessive particle, literary equivalent of 的) / him / her / it |
| 交 |
jiāo |
to hand over; to deliver; to pay (money); to turn over / to make friends / (of lines) to intersect / variant of 跤 |