to pay respect / worship / visit / salute

= + + : Martin Luther King (王) is being forced to worship (拜) Beelzebub (b) in the airplanes bathroom (ai4): Beelzebub is waving threateningly with a toy claw (扌). Martin Luther King also has to play the flute (一) for Beelzebub.

拜 character breakdown

one / single / a (article) / as soon as / entire; whole; all; throughout / "one" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 1) / also pr. [yao1] for greater clarity when spelling out numbers digit by digit

Maud Younger (y) forgot her keys to the space station (Ø1), all she brought outside was her flute (一). She has no choice but to crash the door with the giant flute.
old variant of 乾|干[gan1]

= + : Guy Fawkes is drying his clothes in front of the anthill. He hangs them on a large construction made from a cross and a flute. Waiting for his clothes to dry, he heats some dried fruits.
surname Gan

= + : Guy Fawkes is drying his clothes in front of the anthill. He hangs them on a large construction made from a cross and a flute. Waiting for his clothes to dry, he heats some dried fruits.
dry / clean / in vain / dried food / foster / adoptive / to ignore

= + : Guy Fawkes is drying his clothes in front of the anthill. He hangs them on a large construction made from a cross and a flute. Waiting for his clothes to dry, he heats some dried fruits.
variant of 乾|干[gan1]

= + : Guy Fawkes is drying his clothes in front of the anthill. He hangs them on a large construction made from a cross and a flute. Waiting for his clothes to dry, he heats some dried fruits.
surname Gan

= + : Guy Fawkes is drying his clothes in front of the anthill. He hangs them on a large construction made from a cross and a flute. Waiting for his clothes to dry, he heats some dried fruits.
(bound form) to have to do with; to concern oneself with / one of the ten heavenly stems 天干[tian gan1] / (archaic) shield

= + : Guy Fawkes is drying his clothes in front of the anthill. He hangs them on a large construction made from a cross and a flute. Waiting for his clothes to dry, he heats some dried fruits.
tree trunk / main part of sth / to manage / to work / to do / capable / cadre / to kill (slang) / to fuck (vulgar) / (coll.) pissed off / annoyed

= + : Guy Fawkes is doing some workout in the anthill's bathroom. He's lifting a flute in the one hand and a cross in the other.
hand / (formal) to hold / person engaged in certain types of work / person skilled in certain types of work / personal(ly) / convenient / classifier for skill / CL:雙|双[shuang1],隻|只[zhi1]

Mnemonic symbol: a baseball glove. Sherlock Holmes (sh) is trying out his new baseball glove (手) in the outhouse's living room (ou3).
"hand" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 64), occurring in 提, 把, 打 etc

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a toy claw.
surname Wang
king or monarch / best or strongest of its type / grand / great

= + : Mnemonic symbol: Martin Luther King. Willy Walrus (wu) is stuck in a heap of dirt (土) in the anglepod's kitchen (ang2). Martin Luther King (王) helps him by holding out a flute (一).
to rule / to reign over
dry / dried food / empty; hollow / taken in to nominal kinship; adoptive; foster / futile; in vain / (dialect) rude; blunt / (dialect) to cold-shoulder

Characters with 拜 as component

sound of waves

Words with 拜

to go to church on Sunday (of Christians)
to formally call on / to worship (a God) / to pay homage to sb
sworn brotherhood / intimate friendship
to bow again / to bow twice (gesture of respect in former times) / (in letters, an expression of respect)
to bow in salute / to kowtow
to pay a return visit
to bow in salute; to kowtow
to bow down low / to make obeisance / to kneel and bow
to bow to one another / to kneel and kowtow to one another / formal kowtow as part of traditional wedding ceremony

Sentences with 拜

miǎn
qù
cháo
bài