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腰斩
yāo zhǎn
What 腰斩 means
- to chop sb in half at the waist (capital punishment)
- to cut sth in half
- to reduce sth by a dramatic margin
- to terminate
- to cut short
The characters in 腰斩
- 腰yāothe waist and lower back; (bound form) kidney of an animal (as food)…
- 斩zhǎnto behead (as form of capital punishment); to chop
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