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"slender waist" Chinese-English Dictionary

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Chinese Pinyin Translation
细腰 細腰 xì yāo slender waist / fig. pretty woman / mortise and tenon joint on a coffin
Chinese Pinyin Translation
根 gēn root / basis / classifier for long slender objects, e.g. cigarettes, guitar strings / CL:條|条[tiao2] / radical (chemistry) syn
苗条 苗條 miáo tiao (of a woman) slim / slender / graceful syn
腰部 yāo bù waist / small of the back syn
马尾 馬尾 mǎ wěi ponytail (hairstyle) / horse's tail / slender fibers like horse's tail (applies to various plants)
腰包 yāo bāo waist purse (old) / (fig.) purse / pocket / waist pack / fanny pack / bum bag syn
修长 修長 xiū cháng slender / lanky / tall and thin syn
窈窕 yǎo tiǎo (literary) (of a woman) graceful and refined / comely / (esp.) slender / slim / (literary) (of a bower, a mountain stream or a boudoir within a palace etc) secluded syn
高挑 gāo tiǎo raised high / (of a person) slender / tall and thin (Taiwan pr. [gao1tiao1]) syn
佩带 佩帶 pèi dài to wear (as accessories) / carry at the waist syn
腰围 腰圍 yāo wéi waist measurement / girth
细长 細長 xì cháng slender syn
赤膊 chì bó bare to the waist syn
亭亭玉立 tíng tíng yù lì slender and elegant (of a woman) syn
银鱼 銀魚 yín yú oriental whitebait / slender silvery-white fish e.g. Galaxias maculatus and Salangichthys microdon
腰板 yāo bǎn waist and back / physique syn
拦腰 攔腰 lán yāo (hitting) squarely in the middle / (slicing) across the middle / to hold by the waist syn
腰肢 yāo zhī waist syn
腰间 腰間 yāo jiān waist
纤纤 纖纖 xiān xiān slim / slender
三围 三圍 sān wéi BWH, abbr. for a woman's three measurements, namely: bust 胸圍|胸围[xiong1 wei2], waist 腰圍|腰围[yao1 wei2] and hip 臀圍|臀围[tun2 wei2]
纤体 纖體 xiān tǐ to get a slender figure / slimming
腰际 腰際 yāo jì waist / hips
纤腰 纖腰 xiān yāo slender waistline
折腰 zhé yāo to bend at the waist / to bow / (fig.) to bow to / to submit syn
扭腰 niǔ yāo to sway one's hips / to twist one's waist
腰斩 腰斬 yāo zhǎn 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
腰鼓 yāo gǔ waist drum / waist-drum dance (Han ethnic group folk dance)
腰 yāo 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) syn
细 細 xì thin or slender / finely particulate / thin and soft / fine / delicate / trifling / (of a sound) quiet / frugal syn
扦 qiān short slender pointed piece of metal, bamboo etc / skewer / prod used to extract samples from sacks of grain etc / (dialect) to stick in / to bolt (a door) / to arrange (flowers in a vase) / to graft (tree) / to pedicure / to peel (an apple etc)
水蛇腰 shuǐ shé yāo slender and supple waist / lithe body / feminine pose syn
腰杆子 腰桿子 yāo gǎn zi waist / small of the back / (fig.) backing syn
婧 jìng (literary) (of a woman) slender / delicate / (literary) (of a woman) talented
绖 絰 dié hempen band worn on the head or waist by a mourner
鳓 鰳 lè Chinese herring (Ilisha elongata) / white herring / slender shad syn
腰金衣紫 yāo jīn yī zǐ golden seal at the waist, purple gown (idiom) / in official position
虎背熊腰 hǔ bèi xióng yāo back of a tiger and waist of a bear / tough and stocky build syn
袒膊 tǎn bó to strip to the waist / to be bare to the waist
孅 xiān cunning / slender
籯 yíng slender basket for chopsticks
箧箧 篋篋 qiè qiè long and thin / slender
细挑 細挑 xì tiāo slender
纤瘦 纖瘦 xiān shòu slender / slim as a thread
细长金枪鱼 細長金槍魚 slender tuna
曹白鱼 曹白魚 cáo bái yú Chinese herring (Ilisha elongata) / white herring / slender shad
剑嘴鹛 劍嘴鶥 jiàn zuǐ méi (bird species of China) slender-billed scimitar babbler (Pomatorhinus superciliaris)
精瘦 jīng shòu (coll.) lean (figure, meat etc) / slender syn
细嘴鸥 細嘴鷗 xì zuǐ ōu (bird species of China) slender-billed gull (Chroicocephalus genei)
细嘴黄鹂 細嘴黃鸝 xì zuǐ huáng lí (bird species of China) slender-billed oriole (Oriolus tenuirostris)
中卷 zhōng juǎn adult squid, typically more than 15 cm long with a slender body and fins in the shape of a big rhombus (Tw)
削瘦 xuē shòu thin / lean / slender / skinny / (of cheeks) hollow
亭亭玉立 tíng tíng - yù lì (idiom) (of a woman) slender and elegant / (idiom) (of a plant) tall and straight syn
高䠷 gāo tiǎo (of a person) slender / tall and thin
腰臀比 yāo tún bǐ waist-hip
屈体 屈體 qū tǐ to bend at the waist / (fig.) to bow to / (diving) pike position
弓腰 gōng yāo to bow / to bend at the waist
弓身 gōng shēn to bend the body at the waist / to bow
熊腰虎背 xióng yāo hǔ bèi waist of a bear and back of a tiger / tough and stocky build
羯鼓 jié gǔ double-ended skin drum with a narrow waist
脇 xié variant of 脅|胁 / side of the human body, from the armpit to the waist / coerce / force
袒缚 袒縛 tǎn fù to surrender after baring oneself to the waist and tying one's hands behind
腰部系带 腰部系帶 waist belt / pelvic band
番刀 fān dāo type of machete used by Taiwan aborigines, worn at the waist in an open-sided scabbard
腰胯 yāo kuà hips / waist
蚂蚁腰 螞蟻腰 mǎ yǐ yāo (coll.) tiny waist
裤腰 褲腰 kù yāo waist of trousers / waistband syn
游泳圈 yóu yǒng quān swim ring / swim tube / (fig.) (coll.) spare tire (roll of fat around the waist)
拔根汗毛比腰粗 bá gēn hàn máo bǐ yāo cū 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[A ba2 gen1 han4 mao2 bi3 B de5 yao1 cu1])
腰身 yāo shēn waist / waistline syn
The four tones The four tones of Mandarin Pitch over time: tone 1 high and level (red), tone 2 rising (orange), tone 3 falling then rising (green), tone 4 falling (blue). tone 1 tone 2 tone 3 tone 4 Time Pitch

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