腰 ⇒
腰 yāo, waist/lower back/pocket/middle/loins
腰带 yāodài, [腰帶], belt
弯腰 wānyāo, [彎腰], to stoop
腰部 yāobù, waist/small of the back
腰包 yāobāo, waist purse (old)/(fig.) purse/pocket/waist pack/fanny pack/bum bag
掏腰包 tāoyāobāo, to dip into one's pocket/to pay out of pocket/to foot the bill
腰椎 yāozhuī, lumbar vertebra (lower backbone)
腰果 yāoguǒ, cashew nuts
撑腰 chēngyāo, [撐腰], to support/to brace
腰围 yāowéi, [腰圍], waist measurement/girth
裤腰带 kùyāodài, [褲腰帶], waistband
腰缠万贯 yāochánwànguàn, [腰纏萬貫], lit. ten thousand strings of cash in money belt (idiom); carrying lots of money/...
腰身 懒腰 lǎnyāo, [懶腰], a stretch (of one's body)
腰杆 腰子 yāozi, kidney
折腰 zhéyāo, to bend at the waist/to bow/(fig.) to bow to/to submit
后腰 hòuyāo, [後腰], lower back/(sports) defensive midfielder
山腰 shānyāo, halfway up a mountain/lit. waist of mountain
等腰 腰板 yāobǎn, waist and back/fig. upright and still healthy
点头哈腰 diǎntóuhāyāo, [點頭哈腰], to nod one's head and bow (idiom); bowing and scraping/unctuous fawning
半山腰 伸懒腰 shēnlǎnyāo, [伸懶腰], to stretch oneself (on waking or when tired etc)
腰椎间盘 yāozhuījiānpán, [腰椎間盤], intervertebral disk
叉腰 chāyāo, to put one's hands on one's hips/also written 插腰[chā yāo]
裤腰 kùyāo, [褲腰], waist of trousers/waistband
拦腰 lányāo, [攔腰], (hitting) squarely in the middle/(slicing) across the middle/to hold by the wais...
腰肢 yāozhī, waist
伸腰 当腰 腰眼 腰刀 猫腰 máoyāo, [貓腰], to bend over
哈腰 hāyāo, to bend
斩 ⇒
斩 zhǎn, [斬], to behead (as form of capital punishment)/to chop
斩首 zhǎnshǒu, [斬首], to behead
斩草除根 zhǎncǎochúgēn, [斬草除根], to cut weeds and eliminate the roots (idiom); to destroy root and branch/to elim...
斩断 zhǎnduàn, [斬斷], to cut off/to chop sth in half
过关斩将 guòguānzhǎnjiàng, [過關斬將], to surmount all difficulties (on the way to success) (idiom)/abbr. for 過五關斬六將|过五...
披荆斩棘 pījīngzhǎnjí, [披荊斬棘], lit. to cut one's way through thistles and thorns (idiom)/fig. to overcome all o...
斩钉截铁 zhǎndīngjiétiě, [斬釘截鐵], lit. to chop the nail and slice the iron (idiom)/fig. resolute and decisive/unhe...
先斩后奏 xiānzhǎnhòuzòu, [先斬後奏], first decapitate then present your trophy (idiom); act first, report later
过五关斩六将 guòwǔguānzhǎnliùjiàng, [過五關斬六將], lit. to cross five passes and slay six generals (idiom)/fig. to surmount all dif...
白斩鸡 báizhǎnjī, [白斬雞], Cantonese poached chicken, known as "white cut chicken"