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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)
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waist
belt / CL: 條|条,
a stretch (of one's body)
waist
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
kidney
waist / small of the back
to sway one's hips / to twist one's waist
waist purse (old) / (fig.) purse / pocket / waist pack / fanny pack / bum bag
cashew nuts
girdle
to bend at the waist; to bow / (fig.) to bow to; to submit
lumbar vertebra (lower backbone)
waist drum / waist-drum dance (Han ethnic group folk dance)
waist of trousers / waistband
slender waist / fig. pretty woman / mortise and tenon joint on a coffin
waistband
waist / waistline
to stoop
(hitting) squarely in the middle / (slicing) across the middle / to hold by the waist
to put one's hands on one's hips
to nod one's head and bow (idiom); bowing and scraping / unctuous fawning
to bend
slender waistline
(a person's) back (usu. as sth one keeps straight) / (fig.) backing; support
to support / to brace
lower back / (sports) defensive midfielder
lit. ten thousand strings of cash in money belt (idiom); carrying lots of money / extremely wealthy / loaded
waist and back / physique
back of a tiger and waist of a bear / tough and stocky build
the place halfway up a mountain
to bend over; to stoop down / Taiwan pr. [mao1yao1]
slender and supple waist / lithe body / feminine pose
tall and strong / burly / beefy
middle / halfway
harness pad (on draft animal)
(Tw) (publishing) belly band (paper sash around a book, outside the dust jacket)
lumbar vertebrae
(gymnastics) to do a bridge / to do a crab
loin
(lit.) to cry from hunger (from Taiwanese 哭枵, Tai-lo pr. [khàu-iau]) / (Tw) (slang) to whine; shut the hell up!; fuck!; damn!
slipped disk / vertebral herniation / prolapsed disk
to pay out of one's own pocket / to dig into one's pocket
(bird species of China) crimson sunbird (Aethopyga siparaja)
middle / halfway
hips / waist
to back sb up / to support (from the rear)
chicken with cashew nuts
waist / small of the back / (fig.) backing
slouch / stoop / poor posture
(bird species of China) red-rumped swallow (Cecropis daurica)
intervertebral disk
(bird species of China) Leach's storm petrel (Hydrobates leucorhous)
variant of 叉腰
(bird species of China) striated swallow (Cecropis striolata)
(dialect) to bend over
dimples of Venus / back dimples
golden seal at the waist, purple gown (idiom); in official position
(coll.) tiny waist
wide belt / sash / (packaging) paper sash around a book or other product
(bird species of China) Pallas's leaf warbler (Phylloscopus proregulus)
to stretch oneself (on waking or when tired etc)
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)
(bird species of China) Eurasian curlew (Numenius arquata)
isosceles triangle
(bird species of China) house swift (Apus nipalensis)
to bow / to bend at the waist
to straighten one's back / to arch one's back
to dip into one's pocket; to pay out of pocket; to foot the bill
(bird species of China) lemon-rumped warbler (Phylloscopus chloronotus)
(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
waist of a bear and back of a tiger / tough and stocky build
(bird species of China) white-rumped munia (Lonchura striata)
(bird species of China) common redpoll (Acanthis flammea)
(bird species of China) white-rumped sandpiper (Calidris fuscicollis)
(bird species of China) Aleutian tern (Onychoprion aleuticus)
(bird species of China) green sandpiper (Tringa ochropus)
(bird species of China) white-rumped snowfinch (Onychostruthus taczanowskii)
(bird species of China) white-rumped shama (Copsychus malabaricus)
(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)
waist measurement / girth
herniated lumbar disk
waist / hips
(bird species of China) blue-rumped parrot (Psittinus cyanurus)
(coll.) to pace around nervously / to speak indirectly / to beat about the bush
(bird species of China) yellow-rumped honeyguide (Indicator xanthonotus)
(bird species of China) Baird's sandpiper (Calidris bairdii)


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