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> 一礼せんかい

The translation should be something like "where is your bow?" or "you
should/must bow" but I have never seen **せんかい** used in that way before. The
only thing I can possibly think of is that せんかい is **千回** and is actually
emphasizing the importance of the bow but just wanted to check if there's
something else I'm missing?
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Use of せんかい in this sentence?
せんかい here is actually せん (= しない in dialect) + [sentence final
かい](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/questions/2864/in-what-situation-can-i-
use-%E3%81%8B%E3%81%84-for-interrogative-question), and so the intended
interpretation is "Aren't you going to give a bow?" as you surmised.
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It’s a western dialect. In Kansai-ben it is pronounced せんかい【HHHL】. せんかえ【HHHL】
is another variant. In standard Japanese it would correspond to しないか【LHLL】
with a strong demanding tone, and it basically means しろ（よ）.

This かい is different from the かい in the question linked from the other answer,
which is used to soften a question.

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Some standard Japanese speakers, particularly men of a certain age or above,
might say せんか【HLL】.
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