腰

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Contents 1 Translingual 1.1 Han character 1.1.1 References 2 Cantonese 2.1 Hanzi 3 Japanese 3.1 Noun 3.2 Kanji 3.2.1 Readings 4 Korean 4.1 Hanja 5 Mandarin 5.1 Hanzi 6 Vietnamese 6.1 Han character

[edit] Translingual

[edit] Han character

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

1. waist
2. kidney

[edit] 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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[edit] Cantonese

[edit] Hanzi

腰 (Yale yiu1)

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[edit] Japanese

[edit] 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

[edit] Kanji

腰 (common kanji)

[edit] Readings

• On: よう (yō)
• Kun: こし (koshi)

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[edit] Korean

[edit] Hanja

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

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[edit] Mandarin

[edit] Hanzi

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

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[edit] Vietnamese

[edit] Han character

腰 (yêu, ro, eo, oeo)