Memory phrase (Mnemonic) for: 腰


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Meaning

waist, lower back, middle, loins

Pronunciation

yāo

Explanation

Left: body part /, right: need/request (A handbag 覀/西 is, what women need.) [west 西 = Under the horizon the sun sinks at the sunset in the west.]

Mnemonic

(Asian women have less 'butt':) A body part of western 西 women is the waist.

Radicals

meat(and body parts)
西 west
woman
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Vocabulary

腰部 yāo bù waist; small of the back
山腰 shān yāo halfway up a mountain; lit. waist of mountain
腰带 yāo dài belt
掏腰包 tāo yāo bāo to pay; to foot the bill

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