腰
yāo HSK4

waist

腰 yāo
waist noun
waist; the small of the back

我搂着她的腰。

wǒ lǒu zhe tā de yāo.

I put my arm around her waist.

pocket nounverb
(colloquial) pocket; money pouch
kidney noun
(bound form) kidney; animal kidney used as food
middle
(bound form) middle part of an object, such as a mountain or a bottle
to wear
(literary) to wear or carry at the waist
surname
a Chinese surname
waistband
the part of a garment that wraps around the waist

Frequency
Character
Written text
1,458th most common 76.7 per million
Movie subtitles
1,836th most common 25.6 per million appears in 13% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
14.7 per million appears in 6% of films
Written text
48.9 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 5
HSK 3.0
Level 4
Strokes
13
Unicode
U+8170

Sources
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)