腰 — Chinese character
腰
yāo
waist, lower back; middle; pocket
- Pinyin
- yāo
- Radical
- 130 ⾁ (Meat)
- Strokes
- 13
- Components
- 要
- Formation
- pictophonetic — flesh; meaning component ⺼; sound component 要
- Japanese
- 腰 as a kanji
Common words with 腰
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 腰带 (腰帶) | yāo dài | belt; 条 (tiáo),根 (gēn) |
| 弯腰 (彎腰) | wān yāo | to stoop |
| 撑腰 (撐腰) | chēng yāo | to support; to brace |
| 腰部 | yāo bù | waist; small of the back |
| 腰间 (腰間) | yāo jiān | waist |
| 腰包 | yāo bāo | waist purse (old); (fig.) purse |
| 腰围 (腰圍) | yāo wéi | waist measurement; girth |
| 山腰 | shān yāo | the mid-slope of a mountain |
| 腰果 | yāo guǒ | cashew nuts |
| 腰斩 (腰斬) | yāo zhǎn | to chop sb in half at the waist (capital punishment); to cut sth in half |
| 腰椎 | yāo zhuī | lumbar vertebra |
| 下腰 | xià yāo | (gymnastics) to do a bridge; to do a crab |
English words written with 腰
腰 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Zhuangzi 1
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.