自掏腰包 Save Sign in to save words zìtāoyāobāo ㄗˋ ㄊㄠ ㄧㄠ ㄅㄠ to pay out of one's own pocket to dig into one's pocket Character by character 自(zì)self 掏(tāo)fish out 腰(yāo)the waist and lower back 包(bāo)surname Bao A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0