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腰
yāo HSK4

waist

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents

Phonosemantic compound. ⺼ represents the meaning and 要 represents the sound.

Components

⺼
⺼ Meaning component
ròu meat, flesh

⺼ is a component form of 肉.

要
要 Sound component
yào, yāo want

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagart'jiewʔew waist

Sources

Readings & variants
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Historical pronunciations
Baxter-Sagart