腰

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic ⺼ (“flesh”) + phonetic 要

Han character

腰 (radical 130 肉+9, 13 strokes, cangjie input 月一田女 (BMWV), four-corner 7124₄)

1. waist
2. kidney

References

• KangXi: page 989, character 13
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 29705
• Dae Jaweon: page 1441, character 18
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2094, character 5
• Unihan data for U+8170

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Cantonese

Hanzi

腰 (Yale yiu1)

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Japanese

Noun

腰 (hiragana こし, romaji koshi)

1. waist, the (lower) back, the small of the back
2. (anatomy) hip
3. the skirting of a shoji
4. the third line of a tanka poem

Kanji

腰 (common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

• On: よう (yō)
• Kun: こし (koshi)

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Korean

Hanja

腰 (hangeul 요, revised yo, McCune-Reischauer yo, Yale yo)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

腰 (pinyin yāo (yao1), Wade-Giles yao¹)

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Vietnamese

Han character

腰 (yêu, ro, eo, oeo)