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  *腰* | 腰* | *腰
the waist and lower back / (bound form) kidney of an animal (as food) / the waist of trousers or a skirt / (metonym) money pouch; pocket / (bound form) the middle section of an upright object (mountain, bottle etc)
HSK 4
waist purse (old) / (fig.) purse / pocket / waist pack / fanny pack / bum bag
to sway one's hips / to twist one's waist
belt / CL: 條|条,
to chop sb in half at the waist (capital punishment) / to cut sth in half / to reduce sth by a dramatic margin / to terminate / to cut short
lower back / (sports) defensive midfielder
to stoop
waist / small of the back
waist measurement / girth
to support / to brace
slender waist / fig. pretty woman / mortise and tenon joint on a coffin
a stretch (of one's body)
(gymnastics) to do a bridge / to do a crab
(hitting) squarely in the middle / (slicing) across the middle / to hold by the waist
waist of trousers / waistband
slender waistline
to dip into one's pocket; to pay out of pocket; to foot the bill
wide belt / sash / (packaging) paper sash around a book or other product
to stretch oneself (on waking or when tired etc)
waistband
(a person's) back (usu. as sth one keeps straight) / (fig.) backing; support
lumbar vertebra (lower backbone)
waist / waistline
tall and strong / burly / beefy
hips / waist
to bend over; to stoop down / Taiwan pr. [mao1yao1]
to bow / to bend at the waist
kidney
to nod one's head and bow (idiom); bowing and scraping / unctuous fawning
isosceles triangle
lit. ten thousand strings of cash in money belt (idiom); carrying lots of money / extremely wealthy / loaded
waist / small of the back / (fig.) backing
girdle
the place halfway up a mountain
cashew nuts
waist
to put one's hands on one's hips
to bend at the waist; to bow / (fig.) to bow to; to submit
(dialect) to bend over
waist and back / physique
slender and supple waist / lithe body / feminine pose
lumbar vertebrae
harness pad (on draft animal)
waist of a bear and back of a tiger / tough and stocky build
back of a tiger and waist of a bear / tough and stocky build
golden seal at the waist, purple gown (idiom); in official position
middle / halfway
variant of 叉腰
waist drum / waist-drum dance (Han ethnic group folk dance)
to bend
(lit.) to cry from hunger (from Taiwanese 哭枵, Tai-lo pr. [khàu-iau]) / (Tw) (slang) to whine; shut the hell up!; fuck!; damn!
waist
middle / halfway
(coll.) to pace around nervously / to speak indirectly / to beat about the bush
waist / hips
dimples of Venus / back dimples
loin
to back sb up / to support (from the rear)
(coll.) tiny waist
intervertebral disk
(bird species of China) white-rumped shama (Copsychus malabaricus)
(allusion to Tao Qian 陶潛|陶潜, who used this phrase when he resigned from government service rather than show subservience to a visiting inspector) to bow and scrape for five pecks of rice (that being a part of his salary as a local magistrate) / (fig.) to compromise one's principles for the sake of a salary
(bird species of China) green sandpiper (Tringa ochropus)
(bird species of China) Pallas's leaf warbler (Phylloscopus proregulus)
herniated lumbar disk
slouch / stoop / poor posture
(bird species of China) house swift (Apus nipalensis)
lit. a hair plucked from (person A) would be thicker than (person B)'s waist (idiom) / fig. A is far richer (or more powerful) than B / (used in a pattern such as A拔根汗毛比B的腰粗)
to straighten one's back / to arch one's back
(bird species of China) striated swallow (Cecropis striolata)
(Tw) (publishing) belly band (paper sash around a book, outside the dust jacket)
(bird species of China) lemon-rumped warbler (Phylloscopus chloronotus)
(bird species of China) Leach's storm petrel (Hydrobates leucorhous)
(bird species of China) white-rumped munia (Lonchura striata)
(bird species of China) common redpoll (Acanthis flammea)
(bird species of China) Eurasian curlew (Numenius arquata)
(bird species of China) white-rumped sandpiper (Calidris fuscicollis)
(bird species of China) Aleutian tern (Onychoprion aleuticus)
(bird species of China) white-rumped snowfinch (Onychostruthus taczanowskii)
(saying) it's all very well to talk, but getting things done is another matter; (fig.) to be an armchair expert; to blabber on
(bird species of China) red-mantled rosefinch (Carpodacus rhodochlamys)
chicken with cashew nuts
slipped disk / vertebral herniation / prolapsed disk
to pay out of one's own pocket / to dig into one's pocket
(bird species of China) blue-rumped parrot (Psittinus cyanurus)
(bird species of China) red-rumped swallow (Cecropis daurica)
(bird species of China) crimson sunbird (Aethopyga siparaja)
(bird species of China) yellow-rumped honeyguide (Indicator xanthonotus)
(bird species of China) Baird's sandpiper (Calidris bairdii)


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