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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

下腰

xiàyāo

(gymnastics) to do a bridge

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

(gymnastics) to do a bridge

02

to do a crab

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 下腰 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 下腰 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.

汤姆弯下腰,捧起了一把沙子。tāng mǔ wān xià yāo, pěng qǐ le yī bǎ shā zi。

Tom bent down and picked up a handful of sand.

只要你不弯下腰,就没人能骑到你的背上。zhǐ yào nǐ bù wān xià yāo, jiù méi rén néng qí dào nǐ de bèi shàng。

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 下腰.

Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 下腰.

Directly before

  • 弯下腰2

Directly after

  • No repeated neighbour in the corpus.
ABOUT THIS ENTRY

Where this entry comes from

The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.

Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

COMMON QUESTIONS

About 下腰

What does 下腰 mean in Chinese?

下腰 (xiàyāo) means (gymnastics) to do a bridge.

How do you pronounce 下腰?

下腰 is pronounced xiàyāo.

Is 下腰 an HSK word?

下腰 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.

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