腰 yāo
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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') -
yāo
noun
kidney
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: (NCCED '腰' 2; Unihan '腰') -
yāo
noun
waist [of a garment]
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Clothing
Notes: (NCCED '腰' 3) -
yāo
noun
a pocket; a wallet; a purse
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Clothing
Notes: Of a garment (NCCED '腰' 4) -
yāo
noun
middle; midpoint
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: (Guoyu '腰' n 2; Kroll 2015 '腰' 1a; NCCED '腰' 5) -
yāo
noun
loins
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: Informal (Kroll 2015 '腰' 2) -
yāo
measure word
a measure word for belts
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (Guoyu '腰' n 4; Kroll 2015 '腰' 3) -
yāo
verb
to wear around the waist
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (Guoyu '腰' v)
Contained in
- 长腰(長腰) a long, slender waist ; Japonica rice
- 弓腰 to bow; to bend at the waist
- 下腰 (gymnastics) to do a bridge; to do a crab
- 腰果 cashew nuts
- 懒腰(懶腰) a stretch (of one's body)
- 蓝腰短尾鹦鹉(藍腰短尾鸚鵡) blue-rumped parrot (Psittinus cyanurus)
- 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
- 书腰(書腰) (publishing) belly band (paper sash around a book, outside the dust jacket)
- 水蛇腰 slender and supple waist; lithe body; feminine pose
- 猫腰(貓腰) to bend over
- 腰子 kidney ; courage
- 腰斩(腰斬) to chop somebody in half at the waist; to cut something in half ; to reduce something by a dramatic margin; to terminate; to cut short
- 黄腰响蜜䴕(黃腰響蜜鴷) yellow-rumped honeyguide (Indicator xanthonotus)
- 插腰 to put one's hands on one's hips
- 腰鼓 waist drum ; waist-drum dance
- 金腰燕 red-rumped swallow (Cecropis daurica)
- 斑腰燕 striated swallow (Cecropis striolata)
- 腰椎 lumbar vertebra (lower backbone)
- 仗腰子 to help; to backup somebody
- 腰金衣紫 golden seal at the waist, purple gown; in official position
- 后腰(後腰) lower back
- 腰机(腰機) backstrap loom
- 毛腰 to bend over
- 腰胯 hips; waist
- 摺腰 to bend at the waist
- 扭腰 to swing one's hips
- 白腰叉尾海燕 Leach's storm petrel (Oceanodroma leucorhoa)
- 山腰 mountainside
- 腰围(腰圍) waist measurement; girth
- 裤腰带(褲腰帶) waistband
- 弯腰驼背(彎腰駝背) slouch; stoop; poor posture
- 腰椎间盘突出症(腰椎間盤突出症) herniated lumbar disk
- 白腰鹊鸲(白腰鵲鴝) white-rumped shama (Copsychus malabaricus)
- 扠腰 hands on hips
- 白腰文鸟(白腰文鳥) white-rumped munia (Lonchura striata)
- 挺腰 to straighten one's back; to arch one's back
- 淡黄腰柳莺(淡黃腰柳鶯) lemon-rumped warbler (Phylloscopus chloronotus)
- 黑腰滨鹬(黑腰濱鷸) Baird's sandpiper (Calidris bairdii)
- 搭腰 harness pad (on draft animal)
- 腰椎间盘突出(腰椎間盤突出) slipped disk; vertebral herniation; prolapsed disk
- 熊腰虎背 waist of a bear and back of a tiger; tough and stocky build
- 腰包 waist purse; purse; pocket; waist pack; fanny pack; bum bag
- 束腰 a girdle; a hourglass shape
- 细腰(細腰) slender waist; pretty woman ; mortise and tenon joint on a coffin
- 缠腰(纏腰) to bind the waist
- 腰肉 loin
- 蚂蚁腰(螞蟻腰) tiny waist
- 叉腰 to place hands on hips
- 小白腰雨燕 house swift (Apus nipalensis)
- 哈腰 to bend
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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
- 第六十二回 Chapter 62 Water Margin 水滸傳 — 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 腰边 (腰邊) 輙下馬解取腰邊蠡器酌水飲之 — Book of Southern Qi 南齊書, 卷七 本紀第七 東昏侯 Volume 7 Annals 7: Marquess of Donghun — 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
- 腰折 (腰折) 傷腰折股 — Book of Wei 魏書, 卷13 皇后列傳 Volume 13: Bigraphies of Empresses — count: 4
- 腰脚 (腰腳) 但比腰腳大惡 — Book of Liang 梁書, 卷五十一 列傳第四十五 處士 Volume 51: Retired Gentlemen — count: 4