腰 On the HSK 4 vocabulary list, at CEFR level B2. yāo ㄧㄠ the waist and lower back kidney of an animal (as food) bound form the waist of trousers or a skirt money pouch pocket metonym the middle section of an upright object (mountain, bottle etc) bound form Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0 国际中文教育中文水平等级标准, 中华人民共和国教育部, MIT