腰

waist / lower back / pocket / middle / loins

moon / month / monthly / CL:個|个[ge4],輪|轮[lun2]

to demand / to request / to coerce

important / vital / to want / to ask for / will / going to (as future auxiliary) / may / must / (used in a comparison) must be / probably / if

(bound form) to demand; to coerce

to want; to need; to ask for / will; shall; about to / need to; should / if (same as 要是[yao4 shi5]) / (bound form) important

lower back / (sports) defensive midfielder

to stretch oneself (on waking or when tired etc)

to put one's hands on one's hips / also written 插腰[cha1 yao1]

to put one's hands on one's hips

to bend

middle / halfway

middle / halfway

(gymnastics) to do a bridge / to do a crab

(bird species of China) house swift (Apus nipalensis)

to back sb up / to support (from the rear)

(Tw) (publishing) belly band (paper sash around a book, outside the dust jacket)

(allusion to Tao Qian 陶潛|陶潜[Tao2 Qian2], who used this phrase when he resigned from government service rather than show subservience to a visiting inspector) to bow and scrape for five pecks of rice (that being a part of his salary as a local magistrate) / (fig.) to compromise one's principles for the sake of a salary