五体投地

Traditional form:

五體投地

Pinyin (reading):

wǔtǐtóudì

Definitions:

• to prostrate oneself in admiration (idiom); to adulate sb

Characters:

• 五 - five; surname
• 体 - body; group, class; form, style, system
• 投 - to pitch, to throw; to bid, to invest
• 地 - earth, ground, soil; land, region; structural particle used before a verb

Traditional characters:

• 五 - five; surname
• 體 - body; group, class; form, style, system
• 投 - to pitch, to throw; to bid, to invest
• 地 - earth, ground, soil; land, region; structural particle used before a verb