腰缠万贯 — Chinese idiom
腰缠万贯
yāo chán wàn guàn
Traditional: 腰纏萬貫
Meaning
- lit. ten thousand strings of cash in money belt ; carrying lots of money
- extremely wealthy
- loaded
Character by character
- 腰yāowaist, lower back; middle; pocket
- 缠chánto wrap, to entangle; to involve; to bother, to an
- 万wànten thousand; innumerable
- 贯guànto pierce, to string up; a string of 1000 coins
Idioms sharing a character
- 腰金衣紫 yāo jīn yī zǐ
- 点头哈腰 diǎn tóu hā yāo
- 缠夹不清 chán jiā bù qīng
- 缠绵悱恻 chán mián fěi cè
- 胡搅蛮缠 hú jiǎo mán chán
- 一本万利 yī běn wàn lì
- 以一驭万 yǐ yī yù wàn
- 以防万一 yǐ fáng wàn yī
- 光芒万丈 guāng máng wàn zhàng
- 千刀万剐 qiān dāo wàn guǎ
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