腰

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TranslingualEdit

EtymologyEdit

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *qew): semantic ⺼ ‎(“flesh”) + phonetic 要 ‎(OC *qew, *qews)

Han characterEdit

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

1. waist
2. kidney

ReferencesEdit

• 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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ChineseEdit

simp. and trad.		腰

PronunciationEdit

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yāo (yao¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄧㄠ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jiu¹
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): yêu
• Min Nan (POJ): io

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: yāo
    • Zhuyin: ㄧㄠ
    • Wade-Giles: yao¹
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: iau
    • IPA ^(key): /i̯ɑʊ̯⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: jiu¹
    • Yale: yīu
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jiu¹
    • IPA ^(key): /jiːu̯⁵⁵/
• Hakka
  • (Northern Sixian, incl. Miaoli)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: yêu
    • Hakka Romanization System: ieu´
    • Hagfa Pinyim: yeu¹
    • IPA: /i̯eu̯²⁴/
  • (Southern Sixian, incl. Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: yêu
    • Hakka Romanization System: (r)ieu´
    • Hagfa Pinyim: yeu¹
    • IPA: /(j)i̯eu̯²⁴/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: io
    • Tâi-lô: io
    • Phofsit Daibuun: ioy
    • IPA (Taipei): /io⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /iɤ⁴⁴/

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• Middle Chinese: /ʔiᴇu/▼

Rime
Character	腰
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	影 (34)
Final (韻)	宵 (91)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	於霄切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ʔiᴇu/
Pan Wuyun	/ʔiɛu/
Shao Rongfen	/ʔjæu/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ʔiaw/
Li Rong	/ʔiɛu/
Wang Li	/ĭɛu/
Bernard Karlgren	/ʔi̯ɛu/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	yāo

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter-Sagart): /*ʔew/

  (Zhengzhang): /*qew/

Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	腰
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	yāo
Middle Chinese	‹ ʔjiew ›
Old Chinese	/*ʔew/
English	waist
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	腰
Reading #	1/1
No.	14747
Phonetic component	要
Rime group	宵
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	要
Old Chinese	/*qew/

NounEdit

腰

1. waist
2. kidney

Derived termsEdit

• 腰子 (yāozi)

• 腰痛 (yāotòng)

• 腰鼓 (yāogǔ)

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JapaneseEdit

KanjiEdit

腰

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

1. hips, loins, lower back

ReadingsEdit

• On: よう (yō)
• Kun: こし (koshi)

NounEdit

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

Derived termsEdit

• 腰掛 (こしか)ける ‎(koshikakeru): sit down

See alsoEdit

• ヒップ ‎(hippu)
• 胴 (どう)のくびれ ‎(dō no kubire)
• 腰部 (ようぶ) ‎(yōbu)
• 胴回 (どうまわ)り ‎(dōmawari)

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KoreanEdit

HanjaEdit

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

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VietnameseEdit

Han characterEdit

腰 (yêu, ro, eo, oeo)

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