腰 yāo

1. yāo noun waist
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: For example, 弯着腰 'back bent.' (Ye Shengtao, 1999, p. 22; Guoyu '腰' n 1; Kroll 2015 '腰' 1; NCCED '腰' 1; Unihan '腰')
2. yāo noun kidney
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: (NCCED '腰' 2; Unihan '腰')
3. yāo noun waist [of a garment]
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Clothing
   Notes: (NCCED '腰' 3)
4. yāo noun a pocket; a wallet; a purse
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Clothing
   Notes: Of a garment (NCCED '腰' 4)
5. yāo noun middle; midpoint
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: (Guoyu '腰' n 2; Kroll 2015 '腰' 1a; NCCED '腰' 5)
6. yāo noun loins
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: Informal (Kroll 2015 '腰' 2)
7. yāo measure word a measure word for belts
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Guoyu '腰' n 4; Kroll 2015 '腰' 3)
8. yāo verb to wear around the waist
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Guoyu '腰' v)

Contained in

• 白腰燕鸥(白腰燕鷗) Aleutian tern (Onychoprion aleuticus)
• 腰机(腰機) backstrap loom
• 下腰 (gymnastics) to do a bridge; to do a crab
• 后腰(後腰) lower back
• 插腰 to put one's hands on one's hips
• 扭腰 to swing one's hips
• 白腰杓鹬(白腰杓鷸) Eurasian curlew (Numenius arquata)
• 白腰叉尾海燕 Leach's storm petrel (Oceanodroma leucorhoa)
• 腰缠万贯(腰纏萬貫) ten thousand strings of cash in money belt; carrying lots of money; extremely wealthy; loaded
• 腰果 cashew nuts
• 挺腰 to straighten one's back; to arch one's back
• 腰子 kidney ; courage
• 书腰(書腰) (publishing) belly band (paper sash around a book, outside the dust jacket)
• 白腰草鹬(白腰草鷸) green sandpiper (Tringa ochropus)
• 转腰子(轉腰子) to pace around nervously; to speak indirectly; to beat about the bush
• 摺腰 to bend at the waist
• 腰窝(腰窩) dimples of Venus; back dimples
• 伸懒腰(伸懶腰) to stretch oneself (on waking or when tired etc)
• 白腰滨鹬(白腰濱鷸) white-rumped sandpiper (Calidris fuscicollis)
• 点头哈腰(點頭哈腰) to nod one's head and bow; bowing and scraping; unctuous fawning
• 白腰鹊鸲(白腰鵲鴝) white-rumped shama (Copsychus malabaricus)
• 山腰 mountainside
• 搭腰 harness pad (on draft animal)
• 站着说话不腰疼(站著說話不腰疼) it's all very well to talk, but getting things done is another matter; to be an armchair expert
• 腰牌 a certificate worn on the waist
• 白腰雪雀 white-rumped snowfinch (Onychostruthus taczanowskii)
• 膀大腰圆(膀大腰圓) tall and strong; burly; beefy
• 毛腰 to bend over
• 水蛇腰 slender and supple waist; lithe body; feminine pose
• 猫腰(貓腰) to bend over
• 小白腰雨燕 house swift (Apus nipalensis)
• 腰围(腰圍) waist measurement; girth
• 腰金衣紫 golden seal at the waist, purple gown; in official position
• 弓腰 to bow; to bend at the waist
• 裤腰(褲腰) waist of trousers; waistband
• 腰杆子(腰桿子) waist; small of the back; (fig.) backing
• 缠腰(纏腰) to bind the waist
• 熊腰虎背 waist of a bear and back of a tiger; tough and stocky build
• 细腰(細腰) slender waist; pretty woman ; mortise and tenon joint on a coffin
• 斑腰燕 striated swallow (Cecropis striolata)
• 仗腰 to help; to backup somebody
• 裤腰带(褲腰帶) waistband
• 柳腰 waist like a willow
• 折腰 to bend at the waist; to bow ; to be humble
• 腰椎间盘(腰椎間盤) intervertebral disk
• 弯腰(彎腰) to stoop
• 腰际(腰際) waist; hips
• 腰包 waist purse; purse; pocket; waist pack; fanny pack; bum bag
• 腰胯 hips; waist
• 腰肢 waist

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腰肉

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• 卷七十　　志第二十一: 　禮樂四 Volume 70 Treatises 23: Rites and Music 4 History of Yuan 元史 — count: 33
• 卷11　志第6　禮儀六 Volume 11 Treatises 6: Rites 6 Book of Sui 隋書 — count: 30
• 卷四十二　本紀第四十二: 順帝五 Volume 42 Annals 42: Shundi 5 History of Yuan 元史 — count: 10
• 卷二十　　　　　志第十　　　　禮樂十 Volume 20 Treatises 10: Rites and Music 10 New Book of Tang 新唐書 — count: 9
• 第二回 Chapter 2 Water Margin 水滸傳 — count: 9
• 第三十一回 Chapter 31 Water Margin 水滸傳 — count: 9
• 第七十六回 Chapter 76 Water Margin 水滸傳 — count: 8
• 卷八十四 志第六十 河渠二 Volume 84 Treatises 60: Rivers and Canals 2 History of Ming 明史 — count: 8
• 卷一百二十五 志第七十八 禮二十八 Volume 125 Treatises 78: Rites 28 History of Song 宋史 — count: 8
• 第二回 Chapter 112 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 8

Collocations

• 腰剑 (腰劍) 腰劍 — Book of Sui 隋書, 卷11　志第6　禮儀六 Volume 11 Treatises 6: Rites 6 — count: 27
• 腰舆 (腰輿) 王乘腰輿 — Book of Sui 隋書, 卷81　列傳第46 東夷 Volume 81 Biographies 46: The Dongyi — count: 21
• 腰领 (腰領) 以屬其腰領 — Guanzi 管子, 匡君小匡第二十 Chapter 20: Kuang Jun Xiao Kuang — count: 7
• 伤腰 (傷腰) 輔傷腰不能行 — Book of Later Han 後漢書, 卷七十二 董卓列傳 Volume 72: Biography of Dong Zhuo — count: 6
• 绕腰 (繞腰) 男女皆以橫幅吉貝繞腰以下 — Book of Liang 梁書, 卷五十四 列傳第四十八 諸夷 Volume 54: Various Barbarians — count: 6
• 一腰 (一腰) 賞真珠金帶一腰 — Book of Zhou 周書, 卷27 列傳第19 赫連達 韓果 蔡祐 常善 辛威 厙狄昌 田弘 梁椿 梁臺 宇文測 弟深 Volume 27 Biographies 19: He Lianda; Han Guo; Cai You; Chang Shan; Xin Wei; She Dichang; Tian Hong; Liang Chun; Liang Tai; Yu Wence brother Shen — count: 5
• 乘腰 (乘腰) 王乘腰輿 — Book of Sui 隋書, 卷81　列傳第46 東夷 Volume 81 Biographies 46: The Dongyi — count: 4
• 全腰 (全腰) 賜全腰領 — Book of Wei 魏書, 卷66 李崇 崔亮 Volume 66: Li Chong, Cui Liang — count: 4
• 腰痛 (腰痛) 高祖適患腰痛 — Book of Sui 隋書, 卷59　列傳第24 煬帝三男 Volume 59 Biographies 24: Three Sons of Emperor Yang — count: 4
• 腰以下 (腰以下) 腰以下以玉為札 — Book of Later Han 後漢書, 第六 禮儀下 大喪諸侯王列侯始封貴人公主薨 Volume 96: Etiquette Part Three — count: 4